NASA has announced the next steps for its beleaguered Mars Sample Return mission, the ambitious plans to retrieve multiple samples collected on the Red Planet, so they can be analyzed by more sophisticated labs on Earth.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wants NASA to relocate its headquarters from Washington, D.C., to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida's Brevard County.

Anyone hoping for a clear path forward this year for NASA's imperiled Mars Sample Return mission will have to wait a little longer.

To maximize chances of successfully bringing the first Martian rock and sediment samples to Earth for the benefit of humanity, NASA announced Tuesday a new approach to its Mars Sample Return Program.

After a long career as a politician from Florida, former astronaut Bill Nelson has served as NASA's administrator for the last three and a half years. He intends to resign from this position in about two weeks when President Joe Biden ends his term in the White House.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working under the incoming Trump administration. President-elect Donald Trump nominated entrepreneur and commercial astronaut Jared Isaacman as the agency's 15th administrator last month.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy hosted a conversation with astronauts Nick Hague, Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams and

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

NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, the agency's research and development center at the cutting edge of space exploration for decades, is officially under an evacuation order due to a spreading wildfire. Ironically,

UCF, UF and Embry-Riddle solidified a partnership with NASA as the founding members of the Florida University Space Research Consortium at a ceremony at Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday.

The space agency said it is considering two options that would cost in the $6 billion to $7 billion range, including one that would feature innovative designs by commercial partners.