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

A Mars Sample Return Strategic Review team NASA formed in October 2024 assessed the studies and recommended the sampling program’s main architecture, including schedule and cost estimates.

The agency is starting down two different paths toward the samples' return, but only one will bring the red rocks home.

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

To maximize chances of successfully bringing the first Martian rock and sediment samples to Earth for the benefit of humanity ...