A look back at a few Mars 2020 mission highlights of 2024   Perseverance’s past year operating on the surface of Mars was ...

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

On Jan. 13, bright Mars will disappear behind the full moon for several hours. It's the only lunar occultation of Mars ...

Inside of the Electrostatics and Surface Physics Laboratory at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, an electrodynamic dust ...

NASA officials had an earlier plan to bring the Mars samples back to Earth, but the program slammed into a budgetary ...

NASA says it needs until 2026 before making a final decision on how the Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission will work.

Among all the challenges of voyaging to and successfully landing on other worlds, the effective collection and study of soil and rock samples cannot be underestimated.

To maximize chances of successfully bringing the first Martian rock and sediment samples to Earth for the benefit of humanity ...

NASA's Mars Sample Return mission is only in development and has already struggled. Now, the agency has laid out two paths ...

NASA is pitching a cheaper and quicker way of getting rocks and soil back from Mars, after seeing its original plan swell to ...

The Mars Sample Return program has been way over budget and, according to NASA's administrator, has been "out of control." ...