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

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

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

NASA is pitching a cheaper and quicker way of getting rocks and soil back from Mars, after seeing its original plan swell to ...

NASA has unveiled two revamped plans to bring Mars samples to Earth in the 2030s, reducing costs by nearly half from its ...

Previously, the Mars Sample Return mission had been estimated to cost around 11 billion dollars and would not return a sample ...

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

NASA sees two paths for saving its beleaguered plan to retrieve materials from the Red Planet but won’t choose between them ...

"What our wizards at NASA have figured out is that they've come up now with a solution to get the successful outcome we want, and that is, we want to return 30 titanium tubes as soon as possible ...

NASA's mission is to return rock ... has been collecting and storing samples in specially designed sealed titanium tubes that are roughly the size of a cigar. Nelson said on Tuesday that by ...

NASA has set a goal to return rock and soil samples from the surface of Mars in the 2030s. The mission would represent the first time scientific samples from another planet have been returned to ...