"America is leading humanity back to the Moon, onward to Mars, and into a golden age of space exploration," Nelson wrote, ...

During his inaugural address, President Donald Trump said he wants 'American astronauts' on Mars. Where does a future Mars ...

Nelson and NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy left the agency on Monday (Jan. 20), the day that Donald Trump began his ...

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

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

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

NASA is pitching a cheaper and quicker way of getting rocks and soil back from Mars, after seeing its original plan swell to $11 billion. Administrator Bill Nelson presented a revised scenario ...

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

With the revisions, Mars Sample Return is still expensive, but would be less than $8 billion. “That’s a far cry from $11 ...

The agency is starting down two different paths toward the samples' return, but only one will bring the red rocks home.

NASA has decided it's going to pursue parallel missions to attempt to retrieve samples of rock on Mars collected by rovers.