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 ...

US officials canceled NASA’s ambitious Mars Sample Return program, leaving potential evidence of ancient life sitting on Mars. Could China beat them to it?

NASA may already have evidence that ancient life once existed on Mars, but retrieving that potentially transformative data millions of miles from Earth remains another question altogether. The space ...

Video. NASA has landed nine spacecraft on Mars over the past 50 years, and China touched down in 2021, but no one has ...

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, ...