Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's Mars Sample Return program has been effectively cancelled, meaning the best evidence of life on Mars could be trapped in ...

SpaceX's Starship/Super Heavy lifts off on Flight 9 May 27. Credit: SpaceX America has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to open the space frontier by initiating a sustained program of human ...

Moon boots and Mars boots: anyway you look at it there are a lot of NASA shoes still to drop. Among the agency's missions in perpetual déjà vu status is Mars Sample Return (MSR), an attempt to bring ...

BOULDER, Colorado — The existing NASA-European Space Agency effort to establish a Mars Sample Return program is slated to be discontinued. That's the word according to the Commerce, Justice, Science, ...

The only way to create a sustainable program of exploring the moon and Mars with humans, beyond the initial flush of achievement, is by fully integrating science into our planning. We won’t be able to ...