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 ...

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

After an independent review concluded NASA's plans to robotically collect and return rock and soil samples from Mars could cost up to $11 billion, NASA "pulled the plug" and is focusing on two options ...

The year 2025 isn't even a week old and NASA is already gearing up for its first big announcement, this one about the agency's ambitious, yet beleaguered, Mars sample return mission. Today (Jan. 7 ...

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

Program? This is what the renowned space agency recently discussed as it unveiled two potential landing | Space ...

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 ...

Trump says we're going to Mars. He may be making it harder to get there. President Donald Trump says we’re going to Mars, but ...

Among the tech billionaires, foreign diplomats, and CEOs attending, one stood out — Elon Musk. And when Trump, in his first ...

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.