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NASA is aiming to make a determination about the path forward for Mars Sample Return by the end of March 2024.

An overview of the 2023 Independent Review Board report on the state and future of Mars Sample Return.

The MAV (Mars Ascent Vehicle) team recently completed wind tunnel testing at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in a facility that has been a critical part of NASA missions going all the way back to the Apollo program. The same facility that provided valuable testing for NASA missions to low-Earth orbit and the moon is now helping the agency prepare to launch the first rocket from Mars. The MAV is an important part of the joint plan between NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) to bring

Missions to Mars have made many exciting discoveries that have transformed our understanding of the planet, but the next step is to bring samples to Earth for detailed analysis in sophisticated laboratories.

There are many things the latest rover to reach Mars has been tasked with doing on location. Perseverance needs to look for signs of past microbial life ...

Humanity has been sending rovers and other types of gear to Mars for a pretty long time now. Yet all of them were intended to conduct science on the spot...

Material collected by the Perseverance rover will be handled at the Mars Sample Receiving Project office at NASAs Johnson Space Center in Houston.

/PRNewswire/ -- NASA has awarded a contract to Honeybee Robotics LLC of Longmont, Colorado, for the Mars Sample Return (MSR) – Capture, Containment, and...

An area near the base of an ancient river delta in the Red Planet's Jezero Crater will house backup samples from carefully selected rocks on the surface of Mars.

NASA reports that Perseverance has collected several samples with the most abundant organic detections of the mission to date. ...