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

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

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

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

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

Why did the scrappy 4-lb (1.8-kg) copter crash? Fortunately, the Mars mission was designed by NASA to send back an insane amount of data not only about the planet, but also about the vehicles ...

NASA engineers only intended the Mars Perseverance Rover’s Ingenuity ... while the resulting vibrations tore the remainder of one blade from the copter. It then rolled across the sands after ...

See the US achieve many firsts in space exploration this year from SpaceX's wild rocket catch to Intuitive Machines' historic ...

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

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

NASA wants to return Mars samples to Earth, but budget problems and technical woes have the mission caught between a rock and the Red Planet. There appears to be an unofficial robotic space race ...

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