The space agency will provide a broadcast update on the marquee mission that is intended to recover samples of Martian rock ...

NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return program currently faces extreme costs of up to $11 billion and a timeline that could ...

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

NASA wants to return Mars samples to Earth, but budget problems and technical woes have the mission caught between a rock and ...

We may be about to discover the fate of the Mars samples collected by NASA's Perseverance rover. On Tuesday, January 7 at 1:00 pm EST, NASA administrator Bill Nelson and associate administrator Nicky ...

We're hurtling toward a new era of mega-rockets with enough power to send colonists to the red planet, but should we?

Nelson has previously acknowledged the issues at a public announcement, saying: “Mars Sample Return will be one of the most ...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is calling for NASA to ditch its Moon program, arguing that the "Moon is a distraction" and that "we're ...

NASA has been committed to the exploration of planet Mars, and now scientists have decided to use nuclear fission energy as ...

After a long career as a politician from Florida, former astronaut Bill Nelson has served as NASA's administrator for the ...

For example, he has rarely criticized NASA or its overall goal to return humans to the Moon through the Artemis Program.

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, which flew on Mars in April 2021, became the first aircraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on a planet other than Earth.