NASA's Perseverance rover has spotted an oddball rock in an ancient river channel on Mars. Deputy project scientist Katie ...

Two new potential strategies for returning crucial samples from Mars to Earth by the 2030s are now on the table, according to ...

NASA's Mars Sample Return mission, aimed at analyzing Martian rock samples collected by the Perseverance rover, faces a ...

NASA proposes a faster, cheaper plan to bring Mars samples to Earth, aiming for delivery by the 2030s while cutting costs ...

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

With Donald Trump now back in the White House, SpaceX's Elon Musk is more excited than ever about the prospect of his company ...

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

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

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

We have long been inspired by the idea that life could reside on Mars – human or otherwise. But fiction is getting closer to ...

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

NASA has announced two new approaches to the Mars sample return mission that could save billions of dollars and at least a year in the timeline.