Perseverance's past year operating on the surface of Mars was filled with some of the mission's highest highs, but also some ...

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

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

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

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