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

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

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

NASA has revealed two new strategies to bring back rock and dust samples from Mars collected by Perseverance rover. The aim ...

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

NASA proposes a quicker, cost-effective plan to bring Mars samples to Earth by 2030, reducing the mission cost from $11 ...

The soil samples collected by the Mars rover Perseverance are to be scientifically examined on Earth. The costly return ...

NASA is exploring two potential strategies to bring Mars samples back to Earth, aiming to simplify and reduce the cost of the ...

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

Bringing Martian rock and soil samples to Earth is among the top priorities of planetary scientists. By studying fresh rocks ...

JPL's sky crane tech or private vendor to get $5-7 billion contract, before hitching lift back to Earth with ESA ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has made a groundbreaking discovery on Mars by uncovering pure sulfur crystals within a broken rock.