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

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

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

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

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

In April, after an independent review found “near zero probability” of Mars Sample Return making its proposed 2028 launch date, NASA put out a request for alternative proposals to all of its centers ...