Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is collecting samples that could be evidence of ancient alien life. But NASA's Mars Sample Return ...

NASA’s $11 billion plan to robotically bring rock samples from Mars back to Earth is too expensive and will take too long, the agency’s administrator said Monday, so officials are tasking government ...

WASHINGTON — NASA will seek “out of the box” ideas in a bid to reduce the costs and shorten the schedule for returning samples from Mars. In an April 15 briefing, agency officials announced they would ...

NASA bit off more than it could chew when it sent the Perseverance rover to Mars to collect samples. The $2.4 billion mission landed the rover in Jezero Crater, the site of an ancient lake. It's the ...