For astronaut safety and to bolster success of the human exploration to come later, NASA needs an end-to-end demonstration of ...
After an independent review concluded NASA's plans to robotically collect and return rock and soil samples from Mars could cost up to $11 billion, NASA "pulled the plug" and is focusing on two options ...
U.S. plans to return Mars samples face delays as China advances its own mission. Scientists and policymakers debate costs, timelines, and the role of sample return in future Mars exploration ...
NASA will investigate two new approaches to bring its Mars samples to Earth through a mission proposal that is less expensive and technically complicated. Either change in the mission's design could ...
LOS ANGELES - NASA is pitching a revamped plan to retrieve rocks and soil from Mars that promises to be faster and significantly cheaper. The original mission, which ballooned to $11 billion and ...
BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — NASA’s Perseverance rover has collected two dozen rock and dust samples from the red planet that may one day answer the question, “Was there ever life on Mars?” But, NASA ...
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is continuing its mission to collect samples despite uncertainty about when or if those ...
The space agency will provide a broadcast update on the marquee mission that is intended to recover samples of Martian rock for study on Earth. Reading time 2 minutes Check, check—is this thing on?