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

NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the MSR strategy is in the works, saying that NASA will seek innovative new ...

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

In April, after an independent review found “near zero probability” of Mars Sample Return making its proposed 2028 launch ...

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

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

The company has outlined its proposed architecture to return martian rock and dust samples to Earth for research.

American space agency NASA announced it is looking at two ways of landing hardware on Mars for the Sample Return mission, ...

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

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

The return of the Trump administration has sparked discussions about possible shifts in NASA’s strategic direction. With a focus on enhancing America’s presence in space, the administration is ...

Earlier this month, outgoing NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and other agency officials presented two possible plans for the mission, known as Mars Sample Return, for the incoming administration.