The agency is starting down two different paths toward the samples' return, but only one will bring the red rocks home.

NASA officials had an earlier plan to bring the Mars samples back to Earth, but the program slammed into a budgetary ...

NASA's Mars Sample Return mission is only in development and has already struggled. Now, the agency has laid out two paths ...

NASA will analyze and explore two different landing options for its Mars Sample Return program, though it will take almost ...

To maximize chances of successfully bringing the first Martian rock and sediment samples to Earth for the benefit of humanity ...

NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return program currently faces extreme costs of up to $11 billion and a timeline that could ...

NASA hopes a revised plan will get Mars samples back to Earth faster and cost less than the agency's original plan.

NASA has unveiled two revamped plans to bring Mars samples to Earth in the 2030s, reducing costs by nearly half from its ...

Anyone hoping for a clear path forward this year for NASA's imperiled Mars Sample Return mission will have to wait a little ...

The Perseverance rover has been collecting Martian rock samples since 2021, but NASA is still figuring out how to bring them ...

Recent exceptional rock discoveries have only mounted pressure on NASA to solve the problems facing its Mars Sample Return mission, its plan to fly bits of rock, dust, and air collected by ...

Dozens of samples of rock and sediment collected from Mars that could be used to detect ancient microbial life could be ...