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

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

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

NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the MSR strategy is in the works, saying that NASA will seek innovative new ...

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

The company has outlined its proposed architecture to return martian rock and dust samples to Earth for research.

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

NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return program currently faces extreme costs of up to $11 billion and a timeline that could reach 2040. The year 2025 isn't even a week old and NASA is already ...

He said the Senate currently is budgeting $200 million for ongoing development of the Mars Sample Return mission in NASA's fiscal 2025 budget. The House number is $600 million. Whatever number is ...

For nearly half a century, NASA has been talking an awfully good game about its much-heralded Mars Sample Return (MSR) project. As long ago as 1978, the space agency requested funding to develop a ...

To maximize chances of successfully bringing the first Martian rock and sediment samples to Earth for the benefit of humanity, NASA announced Tuesday a new approach to its Mars Sample Return Program.