WASHINGTON – NASA and an international team are developing plans and seeking recommendations to launch the first Mars mission to bring soil samples back to Earth. The ability to study soil from Mars ...

NASA leadership could have a revised strategy in hand for the agency’s ambitious Mars Sample Return effort by spring 2025. That is the mission update prognosis that Jeff Gramling, director of NASA’s ...

NASA’s troubled Mars Sample Return program is stuck at a crossroads—and is likely to remain in limbo until at least 2026—agency officials said at a press briefing on Tuesday. To bring this precious ...

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NASA excels at bold projects. Consider the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which is rewriting cosmology and revealing profound insights into stellar evolution, along with precious views of our own ...