The aerospace giant says it can revive Mars Sample Return with a leaner, lower-cost approach drawing on proven designs.

NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return mission may get a reprieve from an unexpected source. Lockheed Martin has proposed a ...

BEIJING -- China's first Mars sample-return mission, Tianwen 3, is scheduled for launch around 2028, with the goal of ...

Mars Sample Return has blown a hole in NASA’s budget, which threatens other missions that need funding. The NASA center behind the mission, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory , just laid off over 500 ...

Mars Sample Return also has some mission-specific challenges that Webb didn’t have to contend with. For one, it’s happening at the same time as Artemis, NASA’s wildly expensive mission to ...

“Mars Sample Return will be one of the most complex missions NASA has ever undertaken. The bottom line is, an $11 billion budget is too expensive, and a 2040 return date is too far away ...

Hauling to Earth samples of Mars that might contain Red Planet life is deemed a low risk affair in terms of ecological and ... Trump's 2026 budget plan would cancel NASA's Mars Sample Return ...

NASA's mission is to return rock, soil and others samples to Earth for study. NASA announced Monday it is revising plans for its Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission due to the estimated cost and long ...

To bring the first samples from Mars back to Earth, NASA and the European Space Agency have an elaborate plan involving a fleet of robots, including the Perseverance rover, a new Martian lander, a … ...

April 25 (UPI) --A critical NASA mission in the search for life beyond Earth, Mars Sample Return, is in trouble.Its budget has ballooned from $5 billion to over $11 billion, and the sample return ...

Mars Sample Return has blown a hole in NASA’s budget, which threatens other missions that need funding. The NASA center behind the mission, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory , just laid off over 500 ...