Congressional supporters of the Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission have buckled to pressure from the Trump administration to ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is continuing its mission to collect samples despite uncertainty about when or if those ...

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 ...

A test model of the Perseverance rover, designed to explore the surface of Mars, sits in a garage at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...

Right now one of the most advanced planetary explorers ever built is scouring the surface of Mars. Supported by a team of hundreds of scientists back on Earth, the Perseverance rover has traveled ...

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

NASA aims to return Martian soil and rock samples to Earth in the 2030s, marking the first such planetary sample return mission. A decision on the mission profile is delayed until mid-2026. Two ...