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

The Mars Sample Return mission has been ranked as the highest priority by planetary scientists, who hope to find signs of ...

NASA announced Tuesday that it is exploring two options to move forward with its mission to return samples from Mars at a ...

NASA wants to return Mars samples to Earth, but budget problems and technical woes have the mission caught between a rock and ...

NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the ...

SpaceX's Starship was destroyed during its seventh test flight on Thursday night, with the rocket breaking apart less than 10 ...

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

The SpaceX Starship - developed by Elon Musk's aerospace company SpaceX - blasted off from Texas on Thursday for its seventh ...

NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if ...

Space agency says it needs one more year to decide whether its own hardware or a contractor’s will return Martian samples to ...

The Mars Sample Return effort was billions of dollars over budget and not expected to return to Earth with its samples until 2040.