Samples from Mars have never been obtained and returned to Earth, and NASA is still hashing out how it plans to achieve that milestone. The tubes will contain material from the surface that is to ...

NASA wants to return Mars samples to Earth, but budget problems and technical woes have the mission caught between a rock and ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. The prospect of a human colony on Mars has rapidly moved from science fiction to ...

No astronaut has ever stepped foot on Mars, but that doesn't mean humans haven't left their mark — literally. Since 1971 when the Soviet Union's Mars 2 spacecraft crash-landed onto the Red ...

NASA will investigate two new approaches to bring its Mars samples to Earth through a mission proposal that is less expensive ...

"Springtime on Earth has lots of trickling as water ice gradually melts. But on Mars, everything happens with a bang," Serina ...

Previously, the Mars Sample Return mission had been estimated to cost around 11 billion dollars and would not return a sample ...

Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / University of Arizona For the past two years, a NASA spacecraft has sat lifeless on the surface of Mars, its solar panels caked with dirt. Despite the fact that ...