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 ...

NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the ...

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

Bill Nelson has stepped down as NASA administrator, ending a half-century of public service. Janet Petro is now the agency's ...

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.

"These samples have the potential to change the way we understand Mars, our universe, and – ultimately – ourselves," Nelson said in a statement. To ensure that the goal of returning Mars ...