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

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On Jan. 13, bright Mars will disappear behind the full moon for several hours. It's the only lunar occultation of Mars ...

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

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

NASA has announced the next steps for its beleaguered Mars Sample Return mission, the ambitious plans to retrieve multiple ...

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

Mars samples that could help us find alien life are stuck there until at least 2035, NASA says - The timeline for returning ...

In 1998, a photo taken from the International Space Station showed a black, oddly shaped object which became known as the ...

Pluto's big moon Charon may have a different origin story than scientists suspected. New research suggests the two bodies ...