Any vehicle traversing the rocky terrain on Mars needs a sturdy set of wheels. NASA’s Perseverance rover, for example, sports ...

The mystique of Mars has been studied for centuries. The fourth planet from the sun is reminiscent of a rich, red desert and ...

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, ...

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

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

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

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

NASA announced Tuesday that it is exploring two options to move forward with its mission to return samples from Mars at a ...

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Source: Mars 2020 Mission by Ken Farley The bit carousel ... Once a sample has been sealed in its titanium sarcophagus, it’s ready to be deposited onto the Martian surface.