The agency is starting down two different paths toward the samples' return, but only one will bring the red rocks home.
The ever-faithful Hubble Space Telescope has been deployed on many missions over its 34 years in service, and helped us ...
NASA officials had an earlier plan to bring the Mars samples back to Earth, but the program slammed into a budgetary ...
To maximize chances of successfully bringing the first Martian rock and sediment samples to Earth for the benefit of humanity ...
Research and development is underway to create robots that can hunt for signs of life in the vast oceans that exist under the ...
Recent exceptional rock discoveries have only mounted pressure on NASA to solve the problems facing its Mars Sample Return mission, its plan to fly bits of rock, dust, and air collected by ...
NASA hopes a revised plan will get Mars samples back to Earth faster and cost less than the agency's original plan.
NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if ...
A researcher has used advanced models that indicate that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth-Moon system. Both systems include a moon that is a large fraction of the size ...
The Mars Sample Return mission has been ranked as the highest priority by planetary scientists, who hope to find signs of ...
The Mars Sample Return effort was billions of dollars over budget and not expected to return to Earth with its samples until 2040.