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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has collected a unique rock sample named "Silver Mountain" from Mars' Jezero Crater, featuring ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has collected a sample from Mars that has textures “unlike anything we’ve ever seen before.” Known as “Silver Mountain,” the rock core has been sealed into a tube so it can ...

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

NASA's Bennu samples reveal ancient water traces and life's building blocks, while China plans its own asteroid mission, ...

Mars represents one of the most promising locations in our solar system to search for signs of past or present life ...

NASA is considering two ways to get its precious Mars samples back to Earth, but the agency won't pick a winner for another 18 months or so. Analysis of those samples, which are being collected by ...

The NASA Mars Sample Return Program plans to bring these samples to Earth (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) The rover has journeyed across more than 20 miles, according to an interactive map that ...

Trump’s pledge to go to Mars without mentioning the moon has caused some head-scratching and even consternation in the media.