NASA's Curiosity rover has encountered patches of sharp “gator-back” rocks causing mission planners to look for a new route ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has made a groundbreaking discovery on Mars by uncovering pure sulfur crystals within a broken rock.

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

NASA proposes a quicker, cost-effective plan to bring Mars samples to Earth by 2030, reducing the mission cost from $11 ...

NASA has proposed two new innovative ways to bring back critical samples from Mars to Earth by the 2030s. The proposals serve ...

NASA announced Tuesday it may turn to Elon Musk’s SpaceX or Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin to help reduce the soaring costs of ...

The space agency said it is considering two options that would cost in the $6 billion to $7 billion range, including one that ...

NASA's Mars Sample Return mission is only in development and has already struggled. Now, the agency has laid out two paths forward.

NASA reveals updates to its Mars Sample Return Program, focusing on streamlining the mission, lowering expenses, and ...

The Mars Sample Return program has been way over budget and, according to NASA's administrator, has been "out of control." ...

NASA is exploring two potential strategies to bring Mars samples back to Earth, aiming to simplify and reduce the cost of the ...

The agency is starting down two different paths toward the samples' return, but only one will bring the red rocks home.