The proposals present alternatives to the original Mars Sample Return program. Designed by NASA and the European Space Agency ...

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

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

They may resemble kidney beans, but formations on the northern hemisphere of Mars are actually sand dunes covered in carbon ...

A NASA satellite has spotted frozen "kidney beans" on Mars' sand dunes trapped in place until springtime. Photographing them ...

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

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

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