I'm incredibly excited, as part of the Ars Live series, to host a conversation with some of the very best space reporters in ...

The debate about Martian life, however, won't be settled anytime soon. NASA's Mars Sample Return mission ... cigar-sized titanium tubes. Plans won't be finalized until 2026, and it's unlikely ...

NASA employees who would typically be in the know about such plans, however, were left in the dark about a potential push to Mars, a senior official told ... has always been committed to challenge and ...

The proposals present alternatives to the original Mars Sample Return program. Designed by NASA and the European Space Agency, the initial plan was deemed unwieldy after an independent review ...

Elon Musk, a well-known advocate for sending humans to Mars, has explained why it's 'incredibly important' to make the planet ...

March 25 (UPI) --The NASA rover "Curiosity" discovered ... the next big step" to bring samples from Mars back to Earth in order to "settle the debate about life on Mars." "The findings reported ...

The findings could settle an “intense debate” over ... for extant life in Mars’ subsurface,” declared study author Andrea Butturini of the University of Barcelona. NASA, ESA, Maryland ...

NASA has been working on plans to bring samples from Mars ... and bring Mars samples home to our labs to settle the debate about life on Mars,” said Daniel Glavin, senior scientist at NASA ...

On the surface of Mars, a rover has ... press briefing held Tuesday, NASA officials said that the agency was going to simultaneously explore two different mission plans, and hold off on making ...

The return of the samples also will help NASA's search for signs of ancient life." But the mission to return those Perseverance Mars rover samples to Earth is at a crossroads. One plan to return ...

Mars2020 marks the first time NASA has gotten serious about bringing back samples of Mars rocks. And although that plan will ultimately involve billions more dollars and at least one other ...