The aerospace giant says it can revive Mars Sample Return with a leaner, lower-cost approach drawing on proven designs.

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

The White House's 2026 budget request axes NASA's long-held plan to bring Mars samples to Earth for analysis. Here's why that cancellation would be a mistake.

The Mars Sample Return mission is currently on track to be one of the biggest undertakings the space agency has ever attempted, but the issues continue to pile up.

"Returning the scientifically selected samples that await us on Mars, as part of a balanced portfolio, will help to ensure ...

The first samples from Mars, collected by the Perseverance rover, will be returned to Earth in 2033. The Mars Sample Return missions now also include two helicopters similar to Ingenuity.

For more than 20 years, NASA has been inching toward the goal of retrieving samples that its Perseverance rover has been collecting on Mars and flying them to Earth.

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.

The agency’s Mars Sample Return Program plans to bring these samples back to study them in state-of-the-art facilities on Earth. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS NASA has big goals for Mars.

He said the Senate currently is budgeting $200 million for ongoing development of the Mars Sample Return mission in NASA's fiscal 2025 budget. The House number is $600 million.

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.