NASA plans to launch a nuclear-powered spacecraft toward Mars in 2028, carrying three helicopters designed to retrieve rock ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's Mars Sample Return program has been effectively cancelled, meaning the best evidence of life on Mars could be trapped in ...

NASA's plan to retrieve as many as 30 geological samples from Mars is getting a major rewrite, agency officials said on Monday. The initial plan, which would not return the samples to Earth until 2040 ...

Bringing samples from Mars back to Earth is one of NASA's most ambitious goals. The plan goes back to the 1970s, with NASA's robotic exploration program, when the first spacecraft landed on the ...

An illustration of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover on the surface of the Red Planet. Perseverance is gathering samples for return to Earth in the 2030s, but proposed budget cuts could delay or doom ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft returned with samples from Bennu in 2023. Bennu is a near-Earth asteroid. The samples contained the building blocks of life and provide more evidence that asteroids may ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captured this image of a rocky area nicknamed “Cheyava Falls” on July 18, 2024, showing black “poppy seed” and larger “leopard spot” features. Researchers say a sample ...

NASA has set a goal to return rock and soil samples from the surface of Mars in the 2030s. The mission would represent the first time scientific samples from another planet have been returned to Earth ...

As NASA is set to land the Perseverance rover on Mars on Thursday, part of the rover’s mission is to take a sample of Martian soil and return it to Earth someday. While samples of the Moon have been ...