Recent exceptional rock discoveries have only mounted pressure on NASA to solve the problems facing its Mars Sample Return mission, its plan to fly bits of rock, dust, and air collected by ...

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 initial $11 billion proposal while expediting the timeline.

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 on Tuesday announced an overhaul to its plan to collect samples from Mars and return them to Earth. Agency officials ...

NASA announced Tuesday their new approach to their Mars Sample Return Program. The agency will develop two landing ...

The Mars Sample Return effort was billions of dollars over budget and not expected to return to Earth with its samples until 2040.

Dozens of samples collected from missions on Mars that could be used to detect ancient microbial life could be returned as ...

We're hurtling toward a new era of mega-rockets with enough power to send colonists to the red planet, but should we?

Jimmy Carter's brand of public altruism still exists, but is endangered in a nation governed less by a desire for common good ...

NASA has plans to return humans to the moon with the Artemis mission—but Elon Musk’s preference for Mars could have influence ...

For example, he has rarely criticized NASA or its overall goal to return humans to the Moon through the Artemis Program.