NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if ...

In April, after an independent review found “near zero probability” of Mars Sample Return making its proposed 2028 launch ...

The Mars Sample Return mission has been ranked as the highest priority by planetary scientists, who hope to find signs of ...

SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, welcomes 47 Members as new Fellows of the Society. They join their ...

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The Mars Sample Return effort was billions of dollars over budget and not expected to return to Earth with its samples until 2040.

Westinghouse Electric Co. is getting the go-ahead to continue to develop its microreactor that could be deployed in the ...

NASA announced a new approach to its Mars Sample Return Program in which the agency will simultaneously pursue the ...

The upcoming U.S.–India NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) mission will observe Earth like no mission before, ...

In October 2024, NASA announced the assembly of a new team to assess the future of the Mars Sample Return mission, with a full report anticipated by the end of 2024. Odds are good that the livestream ...

The US$2.7-billion Perseverance rover collected the samples looking for evidence of past life, but NASA is dithering about ...