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

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk made light of Starship's fiery end. "Success is uncertain, but entertainment is guaranteed!" he said on ...

For centuries, we have gazed into space with fascination, dreaming of traveling to distant planets. To turn these dreams into ...

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

Trump confidant Elon Musk wants NASA to drop its ambitious plans to return to the moon and instead head straight to Mars.

NASA unveils a groundbreaking approach to bring Martian rock samples back to Earth by 2026, introducing competition between ...

NASA has decided it's going to pursue parallel missions to attempt to retrieve samples of rock on Mars collected by rovers.

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

The deal does not include a provision to raise the debt limit. After days of heated negotiations on Capitol Hill and eleventh-hour interference from President-elect Donald Trump and his ally Elon ...

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

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Nicky Fox ... to provide an update on the status of the agency's Mars Sample Return Program. The briefing will include ...