A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

During his inaugural address, President Donald Trump said he wants 'American astronauts' on Mars. Where does a future Mars ...

"America is leading humanity back to the Moon, onward to Mars, and into a golden age of space exploration," Nelson wrote, ...

NASA is pitching a cheaper and quicker way of getting rocks and soil back from Mars, after seeing its original plan swell to $11 billion. Administrator Bill Nelson presented a revised scenario ...

In a letter to his replacement, outgoing NASA leader Bill Nelson emphasizes the agency’s activities ‘transcend the length of ...

The proposals present alternatives to the original Mars Sample Return program ... 2031 to 2040 — a delay that was “simply unacceptable,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson reiterated Tuesday. The agency ...

NASA proposes a faster, cheaper plan to bring Mars samples to Earth, aiming for delivery by the 2030s while cutting costs ...

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA is pitching a cheaper and quicker way of getting rocks and soil back from Mars, after seeing its original plan swell to $11 billion. Administrator Bill Nelson ...

But NASA administrator Bill Nelson said such failures are necessary ... when the planets' orbits will next align. (Earth/Mars "transfer windows," as such periods are known, occur every 26 months.) ...

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.