The company has outlined its proposed architecture to return martian rock and dust samples to Earth for research.

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

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

Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more! In 2020, the estimated cost of that Mars sample return plan maxed out at around $3 billion. By April 2024 ...

After an independent review concluded NASA's plans to robotically collect and return rock ... and Perseverance Mars rovers, a smaller sample collection spacecraft, a smaller rocket to boost ...

NASA's mission is to return rock ... to Earth. Mars Sample Retrieval Lander Concept Illustration: A Sample Retrieval Lander would launch in 2028, carrying a NASA-led Mars rocket and small Mars ...

But the officials said they had figured out how to potentially launch the mission and bring those red planet rocks back to Earth sooner by reducing the size and weight of the mission, known as Mars ...

Earlier this month, outgoing NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and other agency officials presented two possible plans for the mission, known as Mars Sample Return ... a hovering rocket to lower ...

Program? This is what the renowned space agency recently discussed as it unveiled two potential landing | Space ...

NASA earlier this week said it needs more time to determine the path forward for its Mars Sample Return program, punting a decision until mid-2026. But Rocket Lab believes the best solution is ...

The year 2025 isn't even a week old and NASA is already gearing up for its first big announcement, this one about the agency's ambitious, yet beleaguered, Mars sample return mission. Today (Jan. 7 ...