NASA is developing a groundbreaking spacecraft concept designed to revolutionize Mars travel. The ambitious plan involves ...

An exploding budget and an unraveling schedule spell disappointment for NASA's mission to learn more about Mars's history.

NASA hopes a revised plan will get Mars samples back to Earth faster and cost less than the agency's original plan.

The Mars Sample Return mission has been ranked as the highest priority by planetary scientists, who hope to find signs of ...

NASA proposes a faster, cheaper plan to bring Mars samples to Earth, aiming for delivery by the 2030s while cutting costs ...

The proposals present alternatives to the original Mars Sample Return program. Designed by NASA and the European Space Agency ...

NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the ...

NASA announced Tuesday that it is exploring two options to move forward with its mission to return samples from Mars at a ...

Researchers at NASA Langley are developing a next-gen system called MARVL (Modular Assembled Radiators for Nuclear Electric ...

One of the big firsts in 2024 came from SpaceX as it finally managed to fly its Starship into space without blowing up.

The Perseverance rover has been collecting Martian rock samples since 2021, but NASA is still figuring out how to bring them ...

Previously, the Mars Sample Return mission had been estimated to cost around 11 billion dollars and would not return a sample ...