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 ...

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

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 has announced an overhaul to its plan to bring samples from Mars back to Earth. Agency officials have decided to scrap ...

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

NASA torn over two plans to bring rock samples from Mars: recreating a previous rocket method or getting a lander from a commercial company.

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

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

To that end, NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has already ... to collect the samples from Perserverance and store them in a rocket that would then launch into orbit. Another spacecraft, provided ...