American space agency NASA announced it is looking at two ways of landing hardware on Mars for the Sample Return mission, will decide in late 2026

An exploding budget and an unraveling schedule spell disappointment for NASA's mission to learn more about Mars's history.

NASA has unveiled two revamped plans to bring Mars samples to Earth in the 2030s, reducing costs by nearly half from its initial $11 billion proposal while expediting the timeline.

Previously, the Mars Sample Return mission had been estimated to cost around 11 billion dollars and would not return a sample until the 2040's, noted Nelson, who said a re-evaluation of the mission had to be done because "this thing had gotten out of control."

NASA sees two paths for saving its beleaguered plan to retrieve materials from the Red Planet but won’t choose between them until 2026

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working under the incoming Trump administration. President-elect Donald Trump nominated entrepreneur and commercial astronaut Jared Isaacman as the agency's 15th administrator last month.

NASA announced Tuesday that it is exploring two options to move forward with its mission to return samples from Mars at a lower cost.

“We want to return 30 titanium tubes as soon as possible at ... things by having the sample tubes cleaned on the surface of Mars, versus in the returning spacecraft, and switching from solar ...

The company has outlined its proposed architecture to return martian rock and dust samples to Earth for research.

NASA will investigate two new approaches to bring its Mars samples to Earth through a ... we want to return 30 titanium tubes as soon as possible at the cheapest price." NASA plans to finalize ...

The Mars Sample Return program is a joint NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) initiative that so far has collected 28 titanium-sealed tubes containing cigar-sized samples dug up by NASA’s ...

Artist's rendering of a Mars lander that could retrieve ... success means bringing home 30 of Perseverance's 43 cigar-sized titanium sample tubes. And while NASA is now investigating the viability ...