NASA announced Tuesday it may turn to Elon Musk's SpaceX or Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin to help reduce the soaring costs of ...

NASA's mission to return samples from Mars and potentially discover the first signs of alien life has a new timeline. The ...

The US$2.7-billion Perseverance rover collected the samples looking for evidence of past life, but NASA is dithering about ...

NASA sees two paths for saving its beleaguered plan to retrieve materials from the Red Planet but won’t choose between them ...

The soil samples collected by the Mars rover Perseverance are to be scientifically examined on Earth. The costly return ...

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

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working ...

We're hurtling toward a new era of mega-rockets with enough power to send colonists to the red planet, but should we?

The agency is starting down two different paths toward the samples' return, but only one will bring the red rocks home.

NASA has proposed two new innovative ways to bring back critical samples from Mars to Earth by the 2030s. The proposals serve ...

NASA faces rising costs in its Mars Sample Return mission while China races to return Martian samples by 2028, creating a ...