NASA is delaying plans to move the Mars Sample Return program to its next phase of development after an independent review found serious issues with its technical readiness, cost and schedule. Credit: ...

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 ...

It’ll soon be 62 years since humans left the confines of their planet and headed out into space. On April 12, 1961, Russian Yuri Gagarin performed a full orbit of Earth inside a spacecraft called ...

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, ...

NASA has long declared that it intends to send astronauts to Mars, but not right away. First comes landing on the moon, again. Mars remains on the back burner. That’s not daring enough for Elon Musk, ...

NASA has established the new Moon to Mars Program Office at NASA Headquarters in Washington to carry out the agency’s human exploration activities at the Moon and Mars for the benefit of humanity.

As scientists get closer to putting humans on Mars, the need to understand why clocks tick faster on the red planet is more pressing than ever.

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