NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the ...

Previously, the Mars Sample Return mission had been estimated to cost around 11 billion dollars and would not return a sample until the 2040's, noted Nelson, who said a re-evaluation of the mission ...

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

In 2020, the estimated cost of that ... the rover first launched to Mars. — NASA wants new ideas for its troubled Mars Sample Return mission ...

American space agency NASA announced it is looking at two ways of landing hardware on Mars for the Sample Return mission, will decide in late 2026 ...

The findings are the result of the ongoing studies performed by NASA’s Curiosity rover, which has been scouring the red ...

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Wildfires in California caused evacuations at NASA Jet Propulsion Labaratory in Pasadena, halting the Perseverance Rover ...

The SpaceX boss said last year that the immediate plan was to launch the first Starship missions ... Mars — hardly a low-cost project — it’s worth noting that the partnership between NASA ...

NASA shares images of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) near the sun and stunning photos from Jupiter and Mars missions.

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.