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

NASA has announced potential plans to recover rock samples from Mars. Scientists will investigate whether there is ...

NASA announced Tuesday that it is exploring two options to move forward with its mission to return samples from Mars at a ...

NASA wants to return Mars samples to Earth, but budget problems and technical woes have the mission caught between a rock and ...

The trip to Mars and back is not one for the faint of heart. We're not talking days, weeks, or months. But there are ...

The Mars Sample Return mission has been ranked as the highest priority by planetary scientists, who hope to find signs of ...

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

The spacecraft built and operated by Texas-based Firefly Aerospace launched in the early Monday hours from Florida aboard a ...

NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if ...

Researchers at NASA Langley are developing a next-gen system called MARVL (Modular Assembled Radiators for Nuclear Electric ...

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

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