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

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

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

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

The company has outlined its proposed architecture to return martian rock and dust samples to Earth for research.

NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return program currently faces extreme costs of up to $11 billion and a timeline that could reach 2040. The year 2025 isn't even a week old and NASA is already ...

NASA's Mars Sample Return mission, aimed at analyzing Martian rock samples collected by the Perseverance rover, faces a ...

The Mars Sample Return effort was billions of dollars over budget and not expected to return to Earth with its samples until 2040. By Kenneth Chang Last year, Kenneth Chang wrote about a Martian ...

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

The year 2025 isn't even a week old and NASA is already gearing up for its first big announcement, this one about the agency's ambitious, yet beleaguered, Mars sample return mission. Today (Jan. 7 ...

"If they want to have a Mars sample return, which I can't imagine that they don't, I don't think we want the only sample return coming back on a Chinese spacecraft." He called a planned Chinese ...