18, 2021, NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars and began collecting soil, rock, and atmospheric samples in 30 sterile, cigar-sized, titanium tubes. Now, four years later, the entire mission ...

18, 2021, NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars and began collecting soil, rock, and atmospheric samples in 30 sterile, cigar-sized, titanium tubes. Now, four years later, the entire mission ...

Nicole Stott is the latest astronaut to lend her autograph to the Space Hipsters Signature Edition series of "signed" patches. A former NASA astronaut who has made it her mission to promote the ...

Earlier this month, outgoing NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and other agency officials presented two possible plans for the mission, known as Mars Sample Return, for the incoming administration.

Ballooning budgets prompted Nasa last year to scrap its original plan for the Mars sample return mission in favour of seeking a cheaper, faster solution with input from private industry and academia.

“if they [even] want to have a Mars sample return—which I can’t imagine that they don’t.” Nicola Fox, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, expressed optimism ...

“This will also prepare us to safely send the first human explorers to Mars,” Nicky Fox, who leads NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, said. The Perseverance rover is part of NASA’s Mars ...