"There are incredibly tantalizing samples in the Perseverance rover's cache that could revolutionize our understanding of ...

It looks like NASA's Mars Sample Return mission has come to a bureaucratic end. The mission was to be the crowning ...

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NASA is looking for ways to get rock samples back from Mars for less than the $11 billion the agency would need under its own plan, so last month, officials put out a call to industry to propose ideas ...

A section of a panorama produced by Zhurong, released June 27, showing comms and solar arrays, roving tracks and the distant landing platform. Credit: CNSA/PEC HELSINKI — China is working on a complex ...

The rim of Wahoo crater in Chryse Planitia imaged by the HiRise camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The crater is a possible landing site for Tianwen-3. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona ...

U.S. plans to return Mars samples face delays as China advances its own mission. Scientists and policymakers debate costs, timelines, and the role of sample return in future Mars exploration ...