The Perseverance rover has been collecting Martian rock samples since 2021, but NASA is still figuring out how to bring them ...

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 ...

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 announced Tuesday it had narrowed down to two options the reworked Mars Sample Return mission aiming for a cheaper and ...

Understanding why storms sometimes engulf the entire planet within a layer of grit could prove crucial to future missions.

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

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Coulson Aviation says it plans to swap in an engine from the Hawaii Mars before flying the aircraft back to its home base on ...

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