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

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

Bringing Martian rock and soil samples to Earth is among the top priorities of planetary scientists. By studying fresh rocks ...

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

NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has collected its 24th sample of Jezero Crater. The 'Comet Geyser' sample is "great for ...

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

Samples collected by Perseverance rover not expected until at least 2035, four years behind Tianwen-3’s ‘grab-and-go’ ...

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

The Perseverance rover has been collecting Martian rock samples since 2021, but NASA is still figuring out how to bring them ...

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

Jezero Crater is the home of NASA's Perseverance rover. See a bird's-eye view of the crater with this animated flyover ...

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