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

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, ...

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

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

Source: Mars 2020 Mission by Ken Farley The bit carousel ... Once a sample has been sealed in its titanium sarcophagus, it’s ready to be deposited onto the Martian surface.

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

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

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

The company has outlined its proposed architecture to return martian rock and dust samples to Earth for research.

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

“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 ...