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

"But our community has been very seriously impacted, with over 150 JPLers who have lost their homes and many more displaced." ...

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 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.

NASA has unveiled two revamped plans to bring Mars samples to Earth in the 2030s, reducing costs by nearly half from its ...

After the space agency punts a decision on the mission’s profile to 2026, Rocket Lab unveils its own Mars Sample Return plan.

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

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