SpaceNews

China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission moves into spacecraft construction phase

ESPOO, Finland — China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission is entering flight hardware development, targeting a late 2028 launch to seek out biosignatures on the Red Planet. The mission has ...
Yahoo

Will China return Mars samples to Earth before the US does?

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. NASA is now reviewing and revising its multi-billion-dollar Mars sample-return mission series.
Yahoo

NASA’s Mars Sample Return Mission in Jeopardy as U.S. Considers Abandoning Retrieval

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Right now one of the most advanced planetary explorers ever built is scouring the surface of Mars. Supported by a team of hundreds ...
Futurism

As NASA’s Mars Sample Return Stumbles, China Is Looking to Beat Them to the Punch

The space race continues as China moves up the date for its historic Mars sample return mission while the US slashes its own trip to collect rocks from the Red Planet. As SpaceNews reports, the chief ...
Los Angeles Times

NASA punts Mars Sample Return decision to the next administration

NASA has two options for bringing rock and sediment samples from Mars to Earth, but will let the incoming Trump administration decide which course to take. An independent review board found that the ...
Gizmodo

NASA’s Answer to Mars Sample Return Problem: Develop Two Plans

The Perseverance rover has been collecting Martian rock samples since 2021, but NASA is still figuring out how to bring them back to Earth. Reading time 3 minutes NASA’s Perseverance rover has been ...
Forbes

With Mars Sample Return Delay, ESA’s Rover Launch Has Fresh Urgency

The years-long delay of the NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission leaves astrobiologists —- indeed most of humanity —- longing for some sort of next level closure on whether Mars ever had ...
Digital Trends

NASA has two ideas for how to get samples back from Mars

This photomontage shows tubes containing samples from Mars, as collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. The agency’s Mars Sample Return Program plans to bring these samples back to study them in ...
The New York Times

NASA Will Let Trump Decide How to Bring Mars Rocks to Earth

The Mars Sample Return effort was billions of dollars over budget and not expected to return to Earth with its samples until 2040. By Kenneth Chang Last year, Kenneth Chang wrote about a Martian rock ...
SpaceNews

NASA Releases Independent Review’s Mars Sample Return Report

An Independent Review Board (IRB) looked at NASA’s current plans and goals of the first mission to return samples from Mars, and NASA is establishing a team to respond. In addition to bringing home ...
AOL

NASA punts Mars Sample Return decision to the next administration

Anyone hoping for a clear path forward this year for NASA’s imperiled Mars Sample Return mission will have to wait a little longer. The agency has settled on two potential strategies for the first ...