See how the Sample Transfer Arm for the Mars Sample Return mission will work in this animation. Credit: ESA/NASA ...

NASA is weighing two options to return samples from Mars — one using proven technology and another that seeks help from industry. ... NASA decision on Mars Sample Return reboot slides to 2026.

To truly understand how Mars’ atmosphere has changed over the years, researchers took a closer look at nine years’ worth of data. NASA’s Curiosity rover taking a selfie on Mars. Image source ...

Tianwen-3 (2028): Mars sample return mission; Tianwen-4 (2029): A Jupiter moon Callisto orbiting mission; Venus atmospheric sample return and a Neptune probe in the 2030s; ...

After Tianwen-2, China will again go to Mars with the Tianwen-3 sample return mission, slated for launch in 2028. Tianwen, which means "questions to heaven," is the name given to China's program ...

Lanza advocates for the Mars Sample Return mission, a NASA-European Space Agency campaign to bring home material collected on the Red Planet by the Perseverance rover.

The 2025 Humans to the Moon & Mars Summit (H2M2) will be held May 28 and 29 in Washington, D.C., ... Japan tests its Mars moon sample-return probe ahead of 2026 launch (photo) ...

The Mars Sample Return mission -- aimed at retrieving specimens collected by the Perseverance rover -- is among the biggest science projects on the chopping block.

The mission follows the successful Tianwen-1 Mars orbiter and rover mission launched in 2020, and will be followed by ambitious Mars sample return (Tianwen-3) and Jupiter system (Tianwen-4 ...

Trump's 2026 budget plan would cancel NASA's Mars Sample Return mission. Experts say that's a 'major step back' Mars orbiter snaps 1st image of Curiosity rover driving on the Red Planet (photo) ...