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

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

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

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

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

The second Trump administration started with soaring rhetoric about sending humans to Mars but confusion about who was ...

President Donald Trump pledged to send American astronauts to Mars in his inaugural address Monday, to the visible delight of ...

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

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

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

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

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