GOLDEN, Colorado – It is considered by many engineers and scientists as the "Holy Grail" of robotic red planet exploration: a Mars Return Sample mission. A newly issued working group report by the ...

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 ...

Remember the term "WEIRD"? If you're not familiar with this quirky acronym, it stands for Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. In the realm of psychology, this descriptor has been ...

During his final months as the chief of NASA’s science programs last year, there was one mission Thomas Zurbuchen fretted about more than any other—the agency’s ambitious plan to return rocks from ...

Mars Sample Return campaign makes use of an armada of hardware to collect Martian soil, rock, and atmospheric specimens for return to Earth. An Independent Review Board (IRB) looked at NASA’s current ...