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 ...

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

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

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

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

Only the US, Russia and China have previously docked in space. The expertise is critical for advanced missions.

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 ...