Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tubes holding samples of rock cores, broken rock and dust collected by NASA's Perseverance rover sit on the surface of Mars. The ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is already running over budget and behind schedule. But it may also be our best ...

A sample tube on the Martian surface in the shadow of the Perseverance rover. Perseverance is continuing to collect samples as NASA develops a new plan for returning them to Earth. Credit: ...

NASA's plan to retrieve samples from Mars and bring them back to Earth is currently on hold due to the need for a faster and cheaper method. The project has been on NASA's agenda for years, but the ...

A bipartisan congressional agreement on NASA’s final budget for the current fiscal year offers a glimmer of hope that the space agency’s ambitious but troubled effort to bring pieces of Mars to Earth ...

7:44 a.m. March 7, 2024: An earlier version of this article understated the size of the decrease in NASA’s full-year budget between 2023 and 2024 as being $500,000. It is $500 million. A bipartisan ...

If NASA doesn't come up with a tighter budget for the mission, Mars Sample Return may not happen. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

NASA has cited federal budget concerns as the reason for pumping the brakes on its Mars Sample Return mission meant to bring pieces of the Red Planet back to Earth in 2033, but several lawmakers are ...