An exploding budget and an unraveling schedule spell disappointment for NASA's mission to learn more about Mars's history.

One hundred people were due to take a one-way trip to Mars in 2023 — and, while some experts say it was a suicide mission, ...

Trump confidant Elon Musk wants NASA to drop its ambitious plans to return to the moon and instead head straight to Mars.

NASA announced Tuesday that it is exploring two options to move forward with its mission to return samples from Mars at a ...

NASA wants to return Mars samples to Earth, but budget problems and technical woes have the mission caught between a rock and ...

NASA hopes a revised plan will get Mars samples back to Earth faster and cost less than the agency's original plan.

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

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

NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the ...

Previously, the Mars Sample Return mission had been estimated to cost around 11 billion dollars and would not return a sample ...

Samples collected by Perseverance rover not expected until at least 2035, four years behind Tianwen-3’s ‘grab-and-go’ ...

NASA announced Tuesday it had narrowed down to two options the reworked Mars Sample Return mission aiming for a cheaper and ...