A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

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

An exploding budget and an unraveling schedule spell disappointment for NASA's mission to learn more about Mars's history.

NASA proposes a faster, cheaper plan to bring Mars samples to Earth, aiming for delivery by the 2030s while cutting costs ...

NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the ...

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

NASA’s Perseverance rover, which landed on Mars in 2021, has been collecting samples in cigar-sized titanium tubes as part of the agency’s quest to uncover evidence of ancient microbial life.

NASA unveils a groundbreaking approach to bring Martian rock samples back to Earth by 2026, introducing competition between ...

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NASA has unveiled a revised, cost-effective plan to return Mars samples, aiming for a faster, $6-7 billion mission.

Nelson said both options involve cleaning Martian dust from the tubes on the planet surface instead of on the return vehicle, and using one of the spare arms on the Mars Perseverance rover to ...