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

NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the MSR strategy is in the works, saying that NASA will seek innovative new ...

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

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

The year 2025 isn't even a week old and NASA is already gearing up for its first big announcement, this one about the agency's ambitious, yet beleaguered, Mars sample return mission. On Tuesday (Jan.

In April, after an independent review found “near zero probability” of Mars Sample Return making its proposed 2028 launch ...

NASA announced Tuesday it had narrowed down to two options the reworked Mars Sample Return mission aiming for a cheaper and quicker completion than the version that had been killed last year.

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

The company has outlined its proposed architecture to return martian rock and dust samples to Earth for research.

NASA unveils a groundbreaking approach to bring Martian rock samples back to Earth by 2026, introducing competition between ...

Wildfires in California caused evacuations at NASA Jet Propulsion Labaratory in Pasadena, halting the Perseverance Rover ...

Earlier this month, outgoing NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and other agency officials presented two possible plans for the mission, known as Mars Sample Return, for the incoming administration.