Exploration advocates are pushing back against the planned cancellation of NASA's Mars sample return project, saying it could ...

NASA’s Mars Sample Return program faces opposition from planetary scientists following proposed cancellation, with concerns raised over Perseverance samples, future Mars missions, and international ...

In a complicated maneuver, NASA and ESA wanted to bring soil samples from Mars to Earth. But that won't happen, the USA is ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover continues collecting and studying Mars samples as uncertainty grows over the future of the Mars Sample Return program.

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get them back to Earth. For years, the U.S. space agency's Perseverance rover has ...

For nearly half a century, NASA has been talking an awfully good game about its much-heralded Mars Sample Return (MSR) project. As long ago as 1978, the space agency requested funding to develop a ...

NASA is moving forward with plans to bring samples from Mars to Earth for more intense study than is possible on the red planet, and its robotic explorers are already laying the groundwork. The ...

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. Once ...