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

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

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

Mars continues to fascinate us with its mysteries, and the European Space Agency's (ESA) ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) is ...

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

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 is weighing two options to return samples from Mars — one using proven technology and another that seeks help from ...

Researchers believe dark rocks at the site of a future Mars rover landing mission may be left over from ancient volcanic ...

NASA announced Tuesday it may turn to Elon Musk's SpaceX or Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin to help reduce the soaring costs of ...

Previously, the Mars Sample Return mission had been estimated to cost ... While some experts recommended returning the samples into orbit around the moon where they could be retrieved later ...

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

Once in Mars orbit, the sample container would be collected by the European Space Agency and returned to Earth for detailed laboratory analysis. NASA originally hoped to launch the MSR mission ...