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

NASA proposes a quicker, cost-effective plan to bring Mars samples to Earth by 2030, reducing the mission cost from $11 billion to around $7 billion.

NASA hopes a revised plan will get Mars samples back to Earth faster and cost less than the agency's original plan.

NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the MSR strategy is in the works, saying that NASA will seek innovative new ...

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

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working ...

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 ...

These are exciting times in space exploration, as more and more countries and private enterprises are mastering technology ...

Missions will study everything from water on the Moon to the transformation of our universe after the big bang and ongoing ...