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

The China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced the Tianwen 3, a daring Mars sample return mission to launch in 2028.

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’s Curiosity rover detected more than 20 complex organic molecules in 3.5-billion-year-old clay-bearing rock inside Gale ...

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 ...