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

The BriefNASA announced their new approach to their Mars Sample Return Program on Tuesday.The agency will develop two landing architectures in parallel, promoting competition and innovation while ...

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 ...

That plan, as blueprinted by NASA and its cooperative MSR partner, the European Space Agency (ESA), was unacceptable ... "Our current status is that the Mars Sample Return Strategy Review team ...

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 ...

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

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

The year 2025 isn't even a week old and NASA is already gearing up for its first big announcement, this one about the agency's ambitious, yet beleaguered, Mars sample return mission. Today (Jan. 7 ...

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

ESA is revolutionizing access to Mars with its LightShip initiative, focusing on small, cost-effective spacecraft. This new ...

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