NASA Insight mission's seismometer data of a meteor slamming into Mars has been converted into sound. The meteor broke into ...

The Mars Return Sample (MRS) aims to bring Martian soil back to Earth ... the updates as they happen, or watch the announcement live on NASA TV Live. The MRS mission began in February 2021 ...

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

the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Psyche is the focal point of NASA's mission of the same name. The Psyche spacecraft is set to launch in October 2023. October 2023 is set to be ...

This story appears in the November 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. In winter the temperature at the poles of Mars can reach 200° below zero Fahrenheit. But make no mistake: The red ...

NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS NASA has big goals for Mars. It wants to collect the first-ever samples from the Martian surface and deliver them back to Earth in an ambitious mission called Mars Sample Return.

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

During his second inauguration speech, President Donald Trump endorsed a Mars mission as a part of America’s push into new ...

But there's still one major mission left: Send a sample from Mars back to Earth. NASA is taking a huge step toward that goal in 2020 with its "Mars 2020" rover. The Mars 2020 comes with some major ...

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

And even at that price, the mission would be stretched out and samples would not get back to Earth before 2040. As originally envisioned, the Mars Sample Return mission, or MSR, was the most ...

While robotic missions have returned samples from the moon and space rocks like asteroids, a successful Mars mission would mark the first time that rocks from another planet made it back to Earth.