At issue is $700 million, already appropriated by Congress, to build a spacecraft, launch it to Mars, and once there to serve ...

Congressional supporters of the Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission have buckled to pressure from the Trump administration to kill the centerpiece of NASA’s exploration plans over the next decade.

NASA's Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission could have been a major breakthrough in assessing the habitability of the Red Planet. Unfortunately, however, it has effectively been cancelled, as the U.S.

Nasa has officially opened bidding for a new Mars telecommunications spacecraft, but the $700 million mission is already ...

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 ...

Mars has become one of the most intensely studied destinations in planetary science, with rovers, landers, and orbiters ...