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

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

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working ...

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

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

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

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

NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the ...

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

NASA has announced potential plans to recover rock samples from Mars. Scientists will investigate whether there is ...

The space agency will provide a broadcast update on the marquee mission that is intended to recover samples of Martian rock ...

In what appears to be a jab at NASA, Rocket Lab this week unveiled its own plan to return rock and dust samples the space agency has been collecting from Mars’ Jezero Crater since 2021.