NASA's Curiosity rover has encountered patches of sharp “gator-back” rocks causing mission planners to look for a new route ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has made a groundbreaking discovery on Mars by uncovering pure sulfur crystals within a broken rock.

NASA's mission to return samples from Mars and potentially discover the first signs of alien life has a new timeline. The ...

NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if ...

NASA torn over two plans to bring rock samples from Mars: recreating a previous rocket method or getting a lander from a ...

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

NASA hopes a revised plan will get Mars samples back to Earth faster and cost less than the agency's original plan.

Dozens of samples collected from missions on Mars that could be used to detect ancient microbial life could be returned as ...

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

NASA on Tuesday announced an overhaul to its plan to collect samples from Mars and return them to Earth. Agency officials ...

The Mars Sample Return effort was billions of dollars over budget and not expected to return to Earth with its samples until 2040.