NASA is considering two ways to get its precious Mars samples back to Earth but won't pick a winner for another 18 months or ...

NASA hopes a revised plan will get Mars samples back to Earth faster and cost less than the agency's original plan.

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

NASA said in its announcement it is changing the plan for the spacecraft that will land on Mars to retrieve the samples and ...

The Mars Sample Return mission has been ranked as the highest priority by planetary scientists, who hope to find signs of ...

NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if ...

NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return program currently faces extreme costs of up to $11 billion and a timeline that could ...

NASA announced Tuesday that it's exploring two landing options to move forward with its mission to retrieve environmental samples from Mars at a lower cost. The goal of the Mars Sample Return Program, ...

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

Two NASA astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station, conducting U.S. spacewalk 91 on Thursday, Jan. 16, ...

The Mars Sample Return effort was billions of dollars over budget and not expected to return to Earth with its samples until 2040.