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

NASA sees two paths for saving its beleaguered plan to retrieve materials from the Red Planet but won’t choose between them ...

A computer rendering, produced in collaboration between the Jet Propulsion Laboratory ... cannot safely travel," NASA stated. Despite its robust and much-improved designs, the Mars Chopper ...

Engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ... Mars missions. NASA recently announced they were designing a larger "Mars Chopper" aircraft, which will be 20 times heavier than Ingenuity and ...

Photograph by Chris Gunn, NASA “I haven’t gotten around to putting this up,” Seager says, unrolling a poster that ... development at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena ...

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

NASA will explore two different strategies for fetching Mars rocks collected by the Perseverance rover, and there's a chance ...

NASA is pitching a cheaper and quicker way of getting rocks and soil back from Mars. Administrator Bill Nelson presented two ...

Anyone hoping for a clear path forward this year for NASA's imperiled Mars Sample Return mission will have to wait a little ...

The agency is starting down two different paths toward the samples' return, but only one will bring the red rocks home.

JPL's spy crane tech or private vendor to get $5-7 billion contract, before hitching lift back to Earth with ESA NASA says it ...

NASA wants to return Mars samples to Earth ... a team across NASA centers, the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. That team will recommend ...