NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working ...

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

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

Since landing on Mars in 2021, Perseverance has filled sample tubes with rocks and dirt. NASA's goal has been to retrieve at least some of them and get them to Earth in the 2030s. To do that ...

NASA's Perseverance rover collected samples from Mars and stored them in tubes ... sample container in Mars orbit. The sample container will hold 30 tubes. “NASA’s rovers are enduring Mars ...

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

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

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

This photomontage shows tubes containing samples from Mars, as collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. The agency’s Mars Sample Return Program plans to bring these samples back to study ...

Previously, the Mars Sample Return mission had been estimated to cost around 11 billion dollars and would not return a sample until the 2040's, noted Nelson, who said a re-evaluation of the mission ...

Nelson said both options involve cleaning Martian dust from the tubes on the planet ... the spare arms on the Mars Perseverance rover to transfer the samples to the Sample Retrieval Lander.

For years, the U.S. space agency's Perseverance rover has been scouring Mars and scooping up intriguing rock samples. Some of those samples have been stashed away in cylindrical tubes on the ...