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

The agency is starting down two different paths toward the samples' return, but only one will bring the red rocks home.

The Mars Sample Return program has been way over budget and, according to NASA's administrator, has been "out of control." ...

NASA has revealed two new strategies to bring back rock and dust samples from Mars collected by Perseverance rover. The aim ...

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

NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if ...

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

Samples collected by Perseverance rover not expected until at least 2035, four years behind Tianwen-3’s ‘grab-and-go’ ...

NASA is pitching a cheaper and quicker way of getting rocks and soil back from Mars. Administrator Bill Nelson presented two ...

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

The US$2.7-billion Perseverance rover collected the samples looking for evidence of past life, but NASA is dithering about ...

The soil samples collected by the Mars rover Perseverance are to be scientifically examined on Earth. The costly return ...