NASA's plans for Mars sample return are effectively cancelled as part of a bill approved by the U.S. Congress, ending efforts ...
Congress has handed NASA a rare reprieve, rejecting deep proposed cuts and approving a budget that keeps much of the agency’s ...
Mars Sample Return was supposed to be the crown jewel of planetary science—bringing pristine Martian rock back to Earth to ...
Exploration advocates are pushing back against the planned cancellation of NASA's Mars sample return project, saying it could ...
It looks like NASA's Mars Sample Return mission has come to a bureaucratic end. The mission was to be the crowning ...
Right now one of the most advanced planetary explorers ever built is scouring the surface of Mars. Supported by a team of hundreds of scientists back on Earth, the Perseverance rover has traveled ...
Several other threatened programs may now have a better chance of staying funded, but the move indefinitely postpones our best chance to find life beyond Earth.
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On day one of this administration, the president included his ambitions for Mars in his inaugural address, and again several weeks later to a joint session of Congress: “We are going to conquer the ...
NASA says it is “very unlikely” the agency will be able to recover a Mars spacecraft that has been out of contact for more ...