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

The Mars Sample Return effort was billions of dollars over budget and not expected to return to Earth with its samples until 2040.

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

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

NASA is pitching a cheaper and quicker way of getting rocks and soil back from Mars. Administrator Bill Nelson presented two ...

The simulation involved two full teams of flight controllers, the Sierra Space team in Colorado and the NASA team in Houston, ...

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NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if ...

AI Use Case inventory highlights the agency’s commitment to integrating artificial intelligence in its space missions and operations. The agency’s updated inventory consists of active AI use cases, ...

In April, after an independent review found “near zero probability” of Mars Sample Return making its proposed 2028 launch date, NASA put out a request for alternative proposals to all of its centers ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Nicky Fox, the agency's associate administrator for science missions, will host an ...

Clinton claimed she wrote a letter to the space agency as a child, wishing to be an astronaut at a time when there were no ...