A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has spotted an oddball rock in an ancient river channel on Mars. Deputy project scientist Katie ...

Human ambition to want to know as much as possible about everything around us in space is something that could already be ...

Previously, the Mars Sample Return mission had been estimated to cost around 11 billion dollars and would not return a sample until the 2040's, noted Nelson, who said a re-evaluation of the mission ...

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

Any vehicle traversing the rocky terrain on Mars needs a sturdy set of wheels. NASA’s Perseverance rover, for example, sports ...

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

After an independent review concluded NASA's plans to robotically collect and return rock and soil samples ... He was referring to the agency's Perseverance rover, which landed on the red planet ...

which is being planned jointly with the European Space Agency (ESA), is to retrieve samples of rock, gas and loose surface material that were collected by NASA's Perseverance rover and deliver ...

For years, the U.S. space agency's Perseverance rover has been scouring Mars and scooping up intriguing rock samples. Some of those samples have been stashed away in cylindrical tubes on the ...