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

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

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

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

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 US$2.7-billion Perseverance rover collected the samples looking for evidence of past life, but NASA is dithering about ...

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

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

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 ...