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

NASA will explore two different strategies for fetching Mars rocks collected by the Perseverance rover, and there's a chance ...

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

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

NASA has announced potential plans to recover rock samples from Mars. Scientists will investigate whether there is ...

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

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

The result was a "hard" sideways landing on ... Carried to Mars by NASA's Perseverance rover, Ingenuity was dropped to the surface of the red planet in April 2021 and made its initial flight ...

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

The Ingenuity autonomous helicopter surpassed all expectations to fly dozens of missions over several years on the Red Planet, only stopping this year when an accident damaged one of its rotors ...

Perseverance has collected more than two dozen samples since its 2021 landing, with more to come ... the sample tubes cleaned on the surface of Mars, versus in the returning spacecraft, and ...