NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return program currently faces extreme costs of up to $11 billion and a timeline that could reach 2040. The year 2025 isn't even a week old and NASA is already ...

The Mars Sample Return effort was billions of dollars over budget and not expected to return to Earth with its samples until 2040. By Kenneth Chang Last year, Kenneth Chang wrote about a Martian ...

For more than a year, scientists and aerospace engineers have been awaiting NASA’s decision on how to rescue the troubled Mars Sample Return mission, which aspires to bring Martian rocks and ...

NASA's mission is to return rock, soil and others samples to Earth for study. NASA announced Tuesday that it's exploring two landing options to move forward with its mission to retrieve ...

The Perseverance rover is building up a stash of rocks on Mars that could contain the first-ever signs of alien life, but NASA is scrambling to figure out how it will bring them back to Earth for ...

After an independent review concluded NASA's plans to robotically collect and return rock and soil samples from Mars could cost up to $11 billion, NASA "pulled the plug" and is focusing on two ...

To maximize chances of successfully bringing the first Martian rock and sediment samples to Earth for the benefit of humanity, NASA announced Tuesday a new approach to its Mars Sample Return Program.

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NASA's Perseverance rover collected samples from Mars and stored them in tubes. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS NASA’s Perseverance rover has been hard at work on Mars, collecting pieces of rock and ...

NASA has set a goal to return rock and soil samples from the surface of Mars in the 2030s. The mission would represent the first time scientific samples from another planet have been returned to ...

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NASA is considering two ways to get its precious Mars samples back to Earth, but the agency won't pick a winner for another 18 months or so. Analysis of those samples, which are being collected by ...