A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

NASA unveils a groundbreaking approach to bring Martian rock samples back to Earth by 2026, introducing competition between ...

American space agency NASA announced it is looking at two ways of landing hardware on Mars for the Sample Return mission, ...

An exploding budget and an unraveling schedule spell disappointment for NASA's mission to learn more about Mars's history.

The Mars2020 Perseverance Rover took about 8 years to complete here on Earth. Built at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in ...

A core of a Martian rock about the size of a piece of chalk within a Perseverance rover drill ... The platform’s solar panels would be swapped for a radioisotope power system that can provide ...

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

Option one would use the same "sky crane" landing system proven with NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance Mars rovers ... instead of solar panels, making the craft immune to sunlight-blocking ...

Mars, also called the Red ... remains at an optimal temperature. The solar-powered rover relies on sunlight to generate electricity. The solar panels cover its top and butterfly-like wings ...

However, the US space agency assumes that the final decision on the Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission will not be made until the second half of next year. The Mars rover Perseverance has been ...

For years, the U.S. space agency's Perseverance rover has been scouring Mars and scooping up intriguing rock samples. Some of those samples have been stashed away in cylindrical tubes on the ...