A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

NASA's Mars Sample Return mission, aimed at analyzing Martian rock samples collected by the Perseverance rover, faces a ...

This is a long way off as a mission to Mars has been discussed as no earlier than the 2030s. First NASA wants to get back to ...

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The president’s Inaugural Address linked landing on the Red Planet with Manifest Destiny, but left many of the specifics ...

US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Elon Musk's company SpaceX will "soon" begin a mission to repatriate two American ...

Right now, it plans to wait 18 more months to decide on a way forward, at a time when China will be hard at work designing and building its own sample return mission hardware. That SpaceX is ...

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Earlier this month, outgoing NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and other agency officials presented two possible plans for the mission, known as Mars Sample Return, for the incoming administration.

While robotic missions have returned samples from the moon and space rocks like asteroids, a successful Mars mission would mark the first time that rocks from another planet made it back to Earth.