NASA sees two paths for saving its beleaguered plan to retrieve materials from the Red Planet but won’t choose between them ...

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

B contract, before hitching lift back to Earth with ESA NASA says it needs until 2026 before making a final decision on how ...

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

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

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

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

NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if ...

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

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

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working ...