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

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

The space agency said it is considering two options that would cost in the $6 billion to $7 billion range, including one that ...

NASA's mission to return samples from Mars and potentially discover the first signs of alien life has a new timeline. The ...

The Mars Sample Return program has been way over budget and, according to NASA's administrator, has been "out of control." ...

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

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

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

NASA will investigate two new approaches to bring its Mars samples to Earth through a mission proposal that is less expensive ...

JPL's sky crane tech or private vendor to get $5-7 billion contract, before hitching lift back to Earth with ESA ...

NASA reveals updates to its Mars Sample Return Program, focusing on streamlining the mission, lowering expenses, and ...