Perseverance's past year operating on the surface of Mars was filled with some of the mission's highest highs, but also some ...

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

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

The Mars Sample Return project intends to bring Mars samples to Earth. The Perseverance rover has been gathering rocks and soil since 2021.

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

The Perseverance rover has collected Martian rock samples in two distinct ways, which NASA believes might contain evidence of ...

NASA will explore two different strategies for fetching Mars rocks collected by the Perseverance rover, and there's a chance ...

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

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

NASA announced Tuesday it had narrowed down to two options the reworked Mars Sample Return mission aiming for a cheaper and ...

A European service vehicle would help return the cigar-sized samples. The second option uses new commercial capabilities to ...