Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech There is a perception that NASA’s Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission is being delayed ... while a heavy lander would be needed for a large MAV. Support equipment for ...

A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

NASA is getting excited about a special rock that its Perseverance rover has just scooped up from the surface of Mars.

The agency will decide on a new strategy in 2026. China, meanwhile, is aiming to launch its own Mars sample return mission in 2028, which would potentially have samples back on Earth by 2031.

NASA has confirmed its Mars rover has discovered a Martian sample unlike any other the rover ... of ancient microbial life. Part of its mission is to collect samples of the Martian environment ...

Katy is Managing Editor at IFLScience where she oversees editorial content from News articles to Features, and even occasionally writes some. Perseverance has been exploring a site called Blue ...

NASA’s InSight Lander was the robotic explorer to study the inner layers of Mars: its crust, mantle, and core. It was launched in May 2018 and was retired in December 2022 when the lander ran out of ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover uncovers an ancient rock sample in Jezero Crater, possibly dating back billions of years.

Moreover this Artemis project is touted as a precursor to human missions to Mars, the red planet, in the next 20 years — at a cost that your editorial (“Musk’s mission to Mars”, FT View ...