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

During his inaugural address, President Donald Trump said he wants 'American astronauts' on Mars. Where does a future Mars ...

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

"America is leading humanity back to the Moon, onward to Mars, and into a golden age of space exploration," Nelson wrote, ...

NASA proposes a faster, cheaper plan to bring Mars samples to Earth, aiming for delivery by the 2030s while cutting costs ...

Nelson and NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy left the agency on Monday (Jan. 20), the day that Donald Trump began his ...

Anyone hoping for a clear path forward this year for NASA's imperiled Mars Sample Return mission will have to wait a little ...

NASA's mission to return samples from Mars and potentially discover the first signs of alien life has a new timeline. The samples may arrive sooner.

With the revisions, Mars Sample Return is still expensive, but would be less than $8 billion. “That’s a far cry from $11 ...

During a Jan. 7 press conference, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson conceded that costs have ... to fly the long-awaited mission to collect the Mars rover’s sample tubes. “As that plan had ...

The Perseverance rover is building up a stash of rocks on Mars that could contain the first ... in the words of the agency's administrator, Bill Nelson. After a series of delays, the cost ...