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

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

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

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

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

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

NASA will investigate two new approaches to bring its Mars samples to Earth through a ... we want to return 30 titanium tubes as soon as possible at the cheapest price." NASA plans to finalize ...

NASA has set a goal to return rock and soil samples from the surface of Mars in the 2030s. The mission would represent the first time scientific samples from another planet have been returned to ...

The Mars Sample Return program is a joint NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) initiative that so far has collected 28 titanium-sealed tubes containing cigar-sized samples dug up by NASA’s ...

Artist's rendering of a Mars lander that could retrieve ... success means bringing home 30 of Perseverance's 43 cigar-sized titanium sample tubes. And while NASA is now investigating the viability ...