One of NASA’s biggest space missions is in deep trouble. The Mars Sample Return mission is currently on track to be one of the biggest undertakings the space agency has ever attempted ...

NASA's simulated Mars program was a "success," according to Dr. Suzanne Bell. NASA is readying to send astronauts to Mars by the 2030s and the agency's first, yearlong simulated mission took one ...

A NASA mission to test how living on Mars would stress and test a human crew ended Saturday, with four volunteers emerging from more than a year in a 1,700-square-foot structure. Kelly Haston ...

The mission was the first of NASA's Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog program that aims collect data on human health and performance within the parameters of Mars' resource limits.

NASA has been talking an awfully good game about its much-heralded Mars Sample Return (MSR) project. As long ago as 1978, the space agency requested funding to develop a mission that would see an ...

Nelson noted that China was pursuing what he called a "grab and go" mission to return a sample from Mars, and that the ultimate decisions about what NASA does will get made by officials in the ...