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

A look back at a few Mars 2020 mission highlights of 2024   Perseverance’s past year operating on the surface of Mars was ...

A Mars Sample Return Strategic Review team NASA formed in October 2024 assessed the studies and recommended the sampling program’s main architecture, including schedule and cost estimates.

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

NASA officials had an earlier plan to bring the Mars samples back to Earth, but the program slammed into a budgetary ...

Among all the challenges of voyaging to and successfully landing on other worlds, the effective collection and study of soil and rock samples cannot be underestimated.

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

President-elect Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to call off Friday’s sentencing in his hush money case in New York.

With 10 instruments and technology tests, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander is part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload ...

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

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

NASA is pitching a cheaper and quicker way of getting rocks and soil back from Mars, after seeing its original plan swell to ...