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

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

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

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

From windswept craters to frigid ice caps, explore Martian landscapes through the eyes of NASA’s orbiters, probes and rovers ...

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

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

The spacecraft built and operated by Texas-based Firefly Aerospace launched in the early Monday hours from Florida aboard a ...

The trip to Mars and back is not one for the faint of heart. We're not talking days, weeks, or months. But there are ...

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

Researchers at NASA Langley are developing a next-gen system called MARVL (Modular Assembled Radiators for Nuclear Electric ...

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