NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Nicky Fox, the agency's associate administrator for science missions, will host an audio-only media teleconference to update the public on the Mars Sample Return ...

The year 2025 isn't even a week old and NASA is already gearing up for its first big announcement, this one about the agency's ambitious, yet beleaguered, Mars sample return mission. On Tuesday (Jan.

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

NASA announced Tuesday it had narrowed down to two options the reworked Mars Sample Return mission aiming for a cheaper and quicker completion than the version that had been killed last year.

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Dozens of samples collected from missions on Mars that could be used to detect ancient microbial life could be returned as soon as 2035 and as late as 2039, depending on the course of the next few ...

In October 2024, NASA announced the assembly of a new team to assess the future of the Mars Sample Return mission, with a full report anticipated by the end of 2024. Odds are good that the livestream ...

President Trump pledges in inaugural address to pursue policy that 'expands our territory' and to put US astronauts on Mars.

Twelve days after the announcement, nine Maryland lawmakers demanded that NASA explain why it canceled the project, which was based at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Space and defense company Voyager Technologies said on Tuesday that it had confidentially filed for an initial public offering in the United States, though the number of shares to be offered and the ...

NASA's first two crewed Artemis moon missions have been pushed back to 2026 and 2027, respectively, and the move could have big ramifications for the agency's Artemis program and competition with ...

The year 2025 isn't even a week old and NASA is already gearing up for its first big announcement, this one about the agency's ambitious, yet beleaguered, Mars sample return mission. Today (Jan. 7 ...