The Perseverance rover has been collecting Martian rock samples since 2021, but NASA is still figuring out how to bring them ...

NASA is pitching a cheaper and quicker way of getting rocks and soil back from Mars, after seeing its original plan swell to ...

The Mars Sample Return program has been way over budget and, according to NASA's administrator, has been "out of control." ...

Dozens of samples of rock and sediment collected from Mars that could be used to detect ancient microbial life could be ...

Recent exceptional rock discoveries have only mounted pressure on NASA to solve the problems facing its Mars Sample Return mission, its plan to fly bits of rock, dust, and air collected by ...

NASA announced Tuesday it had narrowed down to two options the reworked Mars Sample Return mission aiming for a cheaper and ...

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

The Mars Sample Return effort was billions of dollars over budget and not expected to return to Earth with its samples until 2040.

The overarching goal of the Mars Sample Return Program is to deepen our understanding of the universe and investigate whether ...

NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if ...

Space agency says it needs one more year to decide whether its own hardware or a contractor’s will return Martian samples to ...