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

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

To maximize chances of successfully bringing the first Martian rock and sediment samples to Earth for the benefit of humanity ...

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

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

The US$2.7-billion Perseverance rover collected the samples looking for evidence of past life, but NASA is dithering about ...

NASA last year asked industry and others to come up with better options to ensure the samples arrive on Earth in the 2030s.

The Perseverance rover has been collecting Martian rock samples since 2021, but NASA is still figuring out how to bring them ...

Dozens of samples of rock and sediment collected from Mars that could be used to detect ancient microbial life could be ...

NASA announced Tuesday it had narrowed down to two options the reworked Mars Sample Return mission aiming for a cheaper and ...