NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the ...

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

Anyone hoping for a clear path forward this year for NASA’s imperiled Mars Sample Return mission will have to wait a little longer. The agency has settled on two potential strategies for the first ...

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 ...

The car-sized Curiosity rover has spotted evidence of once quite hospitable environs on Mars.

Caltech scientists published a study using NASA Curiosity rover imagery showing the past existence of warm water on Mars.

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

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

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has planned two new strategies to bring crucial samples from Mars to ...

American space agency NASA announced it is looking at two ways of landing hardware on Mars for the Sample Return mission, ...

Earlier this month, outgoing NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and other agency officials presented two possible plans for the mission, known as Mars Sample Return, for the incoming administration.