The Mars Sample Return mission has been ranked as the highest priority by planetary scientists, who hope to find signs of ...

NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return program currently faces extreme costs of up to $11 billion and a timeline that could ...

The first approach involves utilizing NASA’s proven sky crane technology, which successfully delivered the Perseverance rover ...

The company has outlined its proposed architecture to return martian rock and dust samples to Earth for research.

The space agency will provide a broadcast update on the marquee mission that is intended to recover samples of Martian rock ...

Geologically, Mars is very reminiscent of the moon. But it also looks a lot like the Earth. It all depends on who you ...

Mars exploration also inspires people around the world. Missions like the Mars rovers and the recent Ingenuity helicopter ...

NASA is weighing two options to return samples from Mars — one using proven technology and another that seeks help from ...

Analysis of those samples, which are being collected by NASA's Perseverance rover, could reveal a wealth of data about Mars and its history — including, perhaps, whether the Red Planet has ever ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Nicky Fox, associate administrator, Science ...