On Jan. 13, bright Mars will disappear behind the full moon for several hours. It's the only lunar occultation of Mars ...

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

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

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

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

NASA will analyze and explore two different landing options for its Mars Sample Return program, though it will take almost ...

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

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

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

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

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

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