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

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

NASA will explore two different strategies for fetching Mars rocks collected by the Perseverance rover, and there's a chance ...

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

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

NASA announced Tuesday their new approach to their Mars Sample Return Program. The agency will develop two landing ...

NASA on Tuesday announced an overhaul to its plan to collect samples from Mars and return them to Earth. Agency officials ...

Recent exceptional rock discoveries have only mounted pressure on NASA to solve the problems facing its Mars Sample Return mission, its plan to fly bits of rock, dust, and air collected by ...

The Perseverance rover has been collecting Martian rock samples since 2021, but NASA is still figuring out how to bring them ...

Previously, the Mars Sample Return mission had been estimated to cost around 11 billion dollars and would not return a sample ...

A European service vehicle would help return the cigar-sized samples. The second option uses new commercial capabilities to ...

Nasa has unveiled a revised plan to bring samples from the surface of Mars back to Earth. The space agency has announced it ...