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

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

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

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

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

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

NASA announced Tuesday that it is exploring two options to move forward with its mission to return samples from Mars at a ...

“We want to return 30 titanium tubes as soon as possible at ... things by having the sample tubes cleaned on the surface of Mars, versus in the returning spacecraft, and switching from solar ...

Steeped in the United States' space race with the Soviet Union, the pursuit of a deeper understanding of Mars' resources and ...

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

Source: Mars 2020 Mission by Ken Farley The bit carousel ... Once a sample has been sealed in its titanium sarcophagus, it’s ready to be deposited onto the Martian surface.