NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the ...
The Mars Sample Return mission has been ranked as the highest priority by planetary scientists, who hope to find signs of ancient life on Mars.
NASA’s Perseverance rover has collected a sample from Mars that has textures “unlike anything we’ve ever seen before.” Known ...
The proposals present alternatives to the original Mars Sample Return program. Designed by NASA and the European Space Agency, the initial plan was deemed unwieldy after an independent review ...
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working under the incoming Trump administration. President-elect Donald Trump ...
See how the Sample Transfer Arm for the Mars Sample Return mission will work in this animation. Credit: ESA/NASA ...
Scientists may have figured out how Mars hung onto its surface liquid water in its ancient history via alternating periods of ...
NASA's remarkable new sample from Mars will help scientists get a better understanding of the planet's history and whether it ...
Mars represents one of the most promising locations in our solar system to search for signs of past or present life ...
Harvard scientists explain how Mars had warm spells billions of years ago, allowing rivers and lakes to exist.
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
The fact that the cold, dry Mars of today had flowing rivers and lakes several billion years ago has puzzled scientists for ...