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

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

NASA will explore two different strategies for fetching Mars rocks collected by the Perseverance rover, and there's a chance ...

Researchers have discovered two sets of ancient wave ripples on Mars, signatures of long-dried bodies of water preserved in ...

A look back at a few Mars 2020 mission highlights of 2024   Perseverance’s past year operating on the surface of Mars was ...

NASA's mission to return samples from Mars and potentially discover the first signs of alien life has a new timeline. The ...

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

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

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

Bringing Martian rock and soil samples to Earth is among the top priorities of planetary scientists. By studying fresh rocks ...

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