The fact that the cold, dry Mars of today had flowing rivers and lakes several billion years ago has puzzled scientists for ...

Right now, it plans to wait 18 more months to decide on a way forward, at a time when China will be hard at work designing and building its own sample return mission hardware. That SpaceX is ...

The return of Mars samples to Earth is among the most ambitious goals of the spaceflight programs of the National Air and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA). Preparing for ...

The Artemis program has been NASA's best chance to get "boots on the moon" again. But with the new US administration taking ...

NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return program currently faces extreme costs of up to $11 billion and a timeline that could reach 2040. The year 2025 isn't even a week old and NASA is already ...

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

NASA wants to return Mars samples to Earth, but budget problems and technical woes have the mission caught between a rock and the Red Planet. There appears to be an unofficial robotic space race ...

Harvard scientists explain how Mars had warm spells billions of years ago, allowing rivers and lakes to exist.

Both the U.S. and China are scripting strategies for bringing goodies back to Earth from Mars via their respective Mars Sample Return (MSR) endeavors. For America, things are currently happening in ...

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), ...

There appears to be an unofficial robotic space race underway involving the Red Planet. Both the U.S. and China are scripting strategies for bringing goodies back to Earth from Mars via their ...

"If they want to have a Mars sample return, which I can't imagine that they don't, I don't think we want the only sample return coming back on a Chinese spacecraft." He called a planned Chinese ...