An exploding budget and an unraveling schedule spell disappointment for NASA's mission to learn more about Mars's history.
A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...
Heat-resistance testing has been conducted on a secretive Chinese weapon, in what is the first confirmation of its existence.
The Mars Sample Return mission has been ranked as the highest priority by planetary scientists, who hope to find signs of ...
NASA announced Tuesday that it is exploring two options to move forward with its mission to return samples from Mars at a ...
NASA's Mars Sample Return mission, aimed at analyzing Martian rock samples collected by the Perseverance rover, faces a ...
NASA hopes a revised plan will get Mars samples back to Earth faster and cost less than the agency's original plan.
NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the ...
One hundred people were due to take a one-way trip to Mars in 2023 — and, while some experts say it was a suicide mission, ...
NASA hopes a revised plan will get Mars samples back to Earth faster and cost less than the agency's original plan.
Previously, the Mars Sample Return mission had been estimated to cost around 11 billion dollars and would not return a sample ...