"Our most recent commercial industry-led offer to NASA is to execute Mars Sample Return (MSR ... would also see invaluable ...

Aerospace giant Lockheed Martin offered to "execute Mars Sample Return (MSR) as a firm-fixed price solution for under $3 ...

Dark “slope streaks,” likely resulting from dust avalanches, stretch across an area of Mars called Acheron Fossae in this ...

Our two-person team loaded the car with a GPS, a drone, notebooks, sample bags, a trowel and a flat spatula lovingly called a ...

NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if the cache can make it back in the 2030s.

NASA has been struggling with its Mars Sample Return mission, which has recently come under scrutiny for cost overruns and scheduling delays. In September 2023, an independent review board (IRB ...

The Mars Sample Return program is a joint NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) ... but actually that provides power and heat through the dust storm season on Mars,” said Fox.

A study suggests Mars takes its red hue from a type of mineral that forms in cool water, which could reveal insights about whether Mars was ever able to support life.

In both cases, the sample collection spacecraft would rely on a radioisotope thermoelectric generator, or RTG, instead of solar panels, making the craft immune to sunlight-blocking dust storms ...