B contract, before hitching lift back to Earth with ESA NASA says it needs until 2026 before making a final decision on how the Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission will work.… During a briefing on ...

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

To maximize chances of successfully bringing the first Martian rock and sediment samples to Earth for the benefit of humanity, NASA announced Tuesday a new approach to its Mars Sample Return Program.

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

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

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

NASA's mission is to return ... The goal of the Mars Sample Return Program, which is being planned jointly with the European Space Agency (ESA), is to retrieve samples of rock, gas and loose ...

The car-sized Curiosity rover has spotted evidence of once quite hospitable environs on Mars.

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

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has planned two new strategies to bring crucial samples from Mars to ...

NASA unveils a groundbreaking approach to bring Martian rock samples back to Earth by 2026, introducing competition between ...

American space agency NASA announced it is looking at two ways of landing hardware on Mars for the Sample Return mission, ...