NASA will investigate two new approaches to bring its Mars samples to Earth through a mission proposal that is less expensive ...

NASA has announced revisions to its Mars Sample Return Program, aiming to simplify the mission, reduce costs, and expedite ...

NASA has proposed two new innovative ways to bring back critical samples from Mars to Earth by the 2030s. The proposals serve ...

The overarching goal of the Mars Sample Return Program is to deepen our understanding of the universe and investigate whether Mars ever harbored life.

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

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

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

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA is pitching a cheaper and quicker way of getting rocks and soil back from Mars, after seeing its ...

For more than a year, scientists and aerospace engineers have been awaiting NASA’s decision on how to rescue the troubled ...

NASA said in its announcement it is changing the plan for the spacecraft that will land on Mars to retrieve the samples and ...

Space agency says it needs one more year to decide whether its own hardware or a contractor’s will return Martian samples to ...