NASA's Mars Sample Return (MSR) program aims to collect and retrieve samples from Mars. With a budget of $11 billion over 15 ...

An illustration shows NASA's Perseverance rover on the Martian surface. (NASA/JPL-Caltech) NASA announced Monday it is dramatically overhauling its highly anticipated but troubled mission to bring ...

NASA is looking for a new way to get its precious Mars samples back to Earth. Those samples are being collected by the Perseverance rover in Mars' Jezero Crater, which hosted a lake and a river ...

China now has credible plans for a Mars Sample Return mission called Tianwen-3. The Chinese Space Agency wants to launch in 2028, with separate lander and ascent vehicle launches.

John Bridges receives funding from the UK Space Agency for NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return planning groups tasked with identifying the best techniques to analyse returned samples, and the closest ...

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NASA announced that it is overhauling its highly anticipated but troubled mission to bring pieces of Mars back to Earth as part of its hunt for ancient life. its highly anticipated but troubled ...

NASA recently announced that it is seeking new ways to complete the return to Earth of rock cores drilled by the Perseverance Rover in the Jezero Crater on Mars. This has led to some anxiety among ...

The quest to return rock materials from Mars to Earth to see if they contain traces of past life is going to go through a major overhaul. The US space agency says the current mission design can't ...