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

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

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

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

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

NASA hopes a revised plan will get Mars samples back to Earth faster and cost less than the agency's original plan.

NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has collected its 24th sample of Jezero Crater. The 'Comet Geyser' sample is "great for ...

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

The Mars Sample Return mission has been ranked as the highest priority by planetary scientists, who hope to find signs of ...

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

The Mars Sample Return project intends to bring Mars samples to Earth. The Perseverance rover has been gathering rocks and soil since 2021.

The US$2.7-billion Perseverance rover collected the samples looking for evidence of past life, but NASA is dithering about ...