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 ...

The Mars Sample Return effort was billions of dollars over budget and not expected to return to Earth with its samples until ...

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

The Mars Sample Return mission has been ranked as the highest priority by planetary scientists, who hope to find signs of ...

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

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 ...

The BriefNASA announced their new approach to their Mars Sample Return Program on Tuesday.The agency will develop two landing ...

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

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.

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

American space agency NASA announced it is looking at two ways of landing hardware on Mars for the Sample Return mission, ...