Earlier this month, outgoing NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and other agency officials presented two possible plans for the mission, known as Mars Sample Return, for the incoming administration.

dewayne.a.washington@nasa.gov. A copy of NASA's media accreditation policy is online. The agency's Mars Sample Return Program has been a major long-term goal of international planetary ...

NASA wants to return Mars samples to Earth, but budget problems and technical woes have the mission caught between a rock and the Red Planet. There appears to be an unofficial robotic space race ...

Nasa wants to send humans to Mars as early as the 2030s: a journey that would take around nine whole months. The red planet, which has become the first to be inhabited entirely by robots ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- To maximize chances of successfully bringing the first Martian rock and sediment samples to Earth for the benefit of humanity, NASA announced Tuesday a new ...

"Pursuing two potential paths forward will ensure that NASA is able bring these samples back from Mars with significant cost and schedule saving compared to the previous plan," said NASA ...

Janet Petro has been appointed as the acting administrator of NASA, the US space agency announced after President Donald ...