NASA officials had an earlier plan to bring the Mars samples back to Earth, but the program slammed into a budgetary ...

The space agency said it is considering two options that would cost in the $6 billion to $7 billion range, including one that ...

To maximize chances of successfully bringing the first Martian rock and sediment samples to Earth for the benefit of humanity ...

The Mars Sample Return program has been way over budget and, according to NASA's administrator, has been "out of control." ...

NASA's Mars Sample Return mission is only in development and has already struggled. Now, the agency has laid out two paths ...

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

Anyone hoping for a clear path forward this year for NASA's imperiled Mars Sample Return mission will have to wait a little ...

The Perseverance rover has been collecting Martian rock samples since 2021, but NASA is still figuring out how to bring them ...

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

NASA on Tuesday announced an overhaul to its plan to collect samples from Mars and return them to Earth. Agency officials ...

Dozens of samples of rock and sediment collected from Mars that could be used to detect ancient microbial life could be ...

NASA announced Tuesday their new approach to their Mars Sample Return Program. The agency will develop two landing ...