NASA said in its announcement it is changing the plan for the spacecraft that will land on Mars to retrieve the samples and ...

NASA is pitching a cheaper and quicker way of getting rocks and soil back from Mars. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA is pitching ...

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

The US$2.7-billion Perseverance rover collected the samples looking for evidence of past life, but NASA is dithering about ...

A NASA X-ray imager is heading to the moon as part of NASA's Artemis campaign, where it will capture the first global images ...

NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if ...

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

The Mars Sample Return effort was billions of dollars over budget and not expected to return to Earth with its samples until 2040.

In April, after an independent review found “near zero probability” of Mars Sample Return making its proposed 2028 launch date, NASA put out a request for alternative proposals to all of its centers ...

NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return program currently faces extreme costs of up to $11 billion and a timeline that could ...

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