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

NASA has announced potential plans to recover rock samples from Mars. Scientists will investigate whether there is ...

The Mars2020 Perseverance Rover took about 8 years to complete here on Earth. Built at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in ...

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

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

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

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

Although the Perseverance rover has already collected and ... will have to carry a significant amount of mass, and landing a large mass on Mars is tricky because the thin atmosphere doesn ...

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

American space agency NASA announced it is looking at two ways of landing hardware on Mars for the Sample Return mission, ...

For years, the U.S. space agency's Perseverance rover has been scouring Mars and scooping up intriguing ... The second option would include a landing system developed by private companies.