As smoke pours from the intense wildfires currently scorching Los Angeles, air quality has plummeted across the city due to ...

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

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

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

Among all the challenges of voyaging to and successfully landing on other worlds, the effective collection and study of soil ...

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

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

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wants NASA to relocate its headquarters from Washington, D.C., to the Kennedy Space Center in ...

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

Research and development is underway to create robots that can hunt for signs of life in the vast oceans that exist under the ...

The space agency will provide a broadcast update on the marquee mission that is intended to recover samples of Martian rock ...

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