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

The Mars Sample Return effort was billions of dollars over budget and not expected to return to Earth with its samples until ...

In April, after an independent review found “near zero probability” of Mars Sample Return making its proposed 2028 launch ...

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

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.

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 ...

There appears to be an unofficial robotic space race underway involving the Red Planet. Both the U.S. and China are scripting strategies for bringing goodies back to Earth from Mars via their ...

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

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

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

American space agency NASA announced it is looking at two ways of landing hardware on Mars for the Sample Return mission, ...