An exploding budget and an unraveling schedule spell disappointment for NASA's mission to learn more about Mars's history.
A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...
NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the ...
NASA's Mars Sample Return program is designed to do just what its name suggests: return pieces of Mars to Earth so scientists can study the Red Planet up close. To that end, NASA's Perseverance rover ...
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working ...
NASA will explore two different strategies for fetching Mars rocks collected by the Perseverance rover, and there's a chance ...
NASA unveils a groundbreaking approach to bring Martian rock samples back to Earth by 2026, introducing competition between ...
NASA's Perseverance rover collected samples from Mars and ... NASA has decided to pursue two alternative routes for its Mars Sample Return program, one of which elicits the help of the private ...
American space agency NASA announced it is looking at two ways of landing hardware on Mars for the Sample Return mission, ...
Earlier this month, outgoing NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and other agency officials presented two possible plans for the mission, known as Mars Sample Return, for the incoming administration.
To that end, NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has already collected and cached a bevy of samples since it arrived on the planet in 2021. "The agency's Mars Sample Return Program has been a major ...