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

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

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

In April, after an independent review found “near zero probability” of Mars Sample Return making its proposed 2028 launch ...

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

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.

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

NASA will explore two different strategies for fetching Mars rocks collected by the Perseverance rover, and there's a chance ...

NASA announced Tuesday that it is exploring two options to move forward with its mission to return samples from Mars at a lower cost.