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

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

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

NASA has unveiled two revamped plans to bring Mars samples to Earth in the 2030s, reducing costs by nearly half from its ...

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

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

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

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

NASA will investigate two new approaches to bring its Mars samples to Earth through a ... we want to return 30 titanium tubes as soon as possible at the cheapest price." NASA plans to finalize ...

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

“We want to return 30 titanium tubes as soon as possible at ... things by having the sample tubes cleaned on the surface of Mars, versus in the returning spacecraft, and switching from solar ...

Some of the more notable debris on Mars includes pieces of the Viking landers, heat shields, pieces of insulation and, more ...