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 ...

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 ...

The White House budget proposal aims to discontinue NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) after three missions due to cost overruns. NASA's overall budget, including science programs, faces cuts, with the ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover collecting two samples of regolith – broken rock and dust – with a regolith sampling bit on the end of its robotic arm. Image credit: NASA. Close to two months after an ...

Posts from this author 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 ...

NASA is considering alternative ways to bring back samples from Mars after its budget and schedule for the sample return mission was deemed unrealistic in a recent report by an independent review ...

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 ...

NASA's complex plan to return rocky samples from the Red Planet has faced scrutiny for increasing cost and delays. Reading time 3 minutes The findings from an independent review board suggest that ...

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 ...