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

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

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

Aerospace giant Lockheed Martin has proposed a new, relatively cheaper plan that could save NASA's Mars Sample Return (MSR) ...

While NASA's Mars Sample Return initiative is in political hot water, China is moving ahead on plotting out its rendezvous with the Red Planet. New details of China's aims are emerging.

See Rocket Lab's "proposed mission architecture" for a Mars sample return mission in this animation. Credit: Rocket Lab ...

Drilling two meters deep for sampling will be a world first,” said Hou Zengqian, China’s chief scientist on the Tianwen-3 mission, in a recent interview with China Science Daily. That one sentence ...

Draconian budget and staff cuts could mean another Challenger disaster, warn current and former NASA employees.

White House takes aim at several projects failing to meet cost and schedule estimates—and several more that aren’t.

Recently, Lockheed Martin has unveiled a bold strategy to 'rescue' NASA's Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission by offering a streamlined, modular architecture for under $3 billion (£2.20 billion)—nearly ...