A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

President Donald Trump recently announced that the United States would work to land astronauts on Mars, preferably within the ...

use a sophisticated robotic arm (or perhaps robotic drones like NASA's Ingenuity Mars helictoper) to collect the samples from Perserverance and store them in a rocket that would then launch into ...

Artist's rendering of a Mars lander that could retrieve Perseverance's samples and send them to Earth. (Credit: NASA/ESA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC/MSFC) ...

Mars Sample Retrieval Lander Concept Illustration: A Sample Retrieval Lander would launch in 2028, carrying a NASA-led Mars rocket and small Mars helicopters. JPL-Caltech/NASA At the time ...

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

Two new potential strategies for returning crucial samples from Mars to Earth by the 2030s are now on the table, according to NASA ... s Tianwen-3 mission might launch in 2028 to retrieve the ...

The survival of organisms in the vacuum of space could support the theory that life didn't start on Earth, but originated ...

Any vehicle traversing the rocky terrain on Mars needs a sturdy set of wheels. NASA’s Perseverance rover, for example, sports thick aluminum ones covered in cleats to enhance its traction and ...

To keep those launch schedules, Congress must immediately approve $300 million for Mars Sample Return in this year's budget, Nelson said. NASA officials didn't identify any examples of a ...

The image shows Nasa's Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1. — Nasa/File The Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 has been set for launch this ... s Moon to Mars exploration approach ...