NASA's plans for Mars sample return are effectively cancelled as part of a bill approved by the U.S. Congress, ending efforts ...

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It looks like NASA's Mars Sample Return mission has come to a bureaucratic end. The mission was to be the crowning ...

A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples ...

Exploration advocates are pushing back against the planned cancellation of NASA's Mars sample return project, saying it could ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) officials shared about this development during the annual media briefing held in Paris on ...

Several other threatened programs may now have a better chance of staying funded, but the move indefinitely postpones our ...

NASA’s ultimate mission to discover if life exists on Mars has been effectively cancelled. A new US spending bill released ...

NASA says it is “very unlikely” the agency will be able to recover a Mars spacecraft that has been out of contact for more ...

NASA’s Mars Sample Return program faces opposition from planetary scientists following proposed cancellation, with concerns raised over Perseverance samples, future Mars missions, and international ...

In a complicated maneuver, NASA and ESA wanted to bring soil samples from Mars to Earth. But that won't happen, the USA is ...

U.S. plans to return Mars samples face delays as China advances its own mission. Scientists and policymakers debate costs, timelines, and the role of sample return in future Mars exploration ...