NASA is considering two ways to get its precious Mars samples back to Earth but won't pick a winner for another 18 months or ...

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

The proposals present alternatives to the original Mars Sample Return program. Designed by NASA and the European Space Agency, the initial plan was deemed unwieldy after an independent review ...

NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return program currently faces extreme costs of up to $11 billion and a timeline that could reach 2040. The year 2025 isn't even a week old and NASA is already ...

Elon Musk emphasizes that Mars is crucial for human survival, envisioning it as a backup plan against Earth's fragility. His SpaceX's Starship aims fo ...

The family-geared activities at the Bay City facility will include hands-on activities, demonstrations, a live planetarium show and telescope observation from the planetarium rooftop, officials said.

NASA’s Perseverance rover, which landed on Mars in 2021, has been drilling and collecting cylindrical samples of rock and soil in Jezero Crater. The rest of the plan, devised by NASA’s Jet ...

“Pursuing two potential paths forward will ensure that NASA is able bring these samples back from Mars with significant cost and schedule saving compared to the previous plan,” NASA ...

NASA has announced an overhaul to its plan to bring samples from Mars back to Earth. Agency officials have decided to scrap parts of their original plan to cut down on the difficulty and cost. Instead ...

But the mission to return those Perseverance Mars rover samples to Earth is at a crossroads. One plan to return Perseverance's samples to Earth called for a lander to touch down near the rover ...