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

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

NASA sees two paths for saving its beleaguered plan to retrieve materials from the Red Planet but won’t choose between them ...

NASA on Tuesday announced an overhaul to its plan to collect samples from Mars and return them to Earth. Agency officials ...

NASA will explore two different strategies for fetching Mars rocks collected by the Perseverance rover, and there's a chance ...

Anyone hoping for a clear path forward this year for NASA's imperiled Mars Sample Return mission will have to wait a little ...

To maximize chances of successfully bringing the first Martian rock and sediment samples to Earth for the benefit of humanity ...

NASA has unveiled two revamped plans to bring Mars samples to Earth in the 2030s, reducing costs by nearly half from its ...

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

The agency is starting down two different paths toward the samples' return, but only one will bring the red rocks home.

NASA is pitching a cheaper and quicker way of getting rocks and soil back from Mars. Administrator Bill Nelson presented two ...