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'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 recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the ...
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working ...
The car-sized Curiosity rover has spotted evidence of once quite hospitable environs on Mars.
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 ...
Caltech scientists published a study using NASA Curiosity rover imagery showing the past existence of warm water on Mars.
The company has outlined its proposed architecture to return martian rock and dust samples to Earth for research.
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.