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

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

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

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

In what appears to be a jab at NASA ... But other elements of Rocket Lab’s architecture—such as the MAV and sample retriever—align with the space agency’s plans. The company further ...

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

NASA wants to return Mars samples to Earth, but budget problems and technical woes have the mission caught between a rock and ...

NASA wants to go to Mars ... samples collected previously by the Perseverance Rover. The retrieval craft would then transfer its treasures to a smaller rocket, which would carry them to orbit ...

NASA on Tuesday announced an overhaul to its plan to collect samples from Mars and return them to Earth. Agency officials ...