NASA's Mars Sample Return mission, aimed at analyzing Martian rock samples collected by the Perseverance rover, faces a crucial decision as the Trump administration steps in. The mission's future, with a revised budget of $6-7 billion,

Conservatives are sounding the alarm over how President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead NASA donated over $300,000 to Democrats while his companies promoted diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.

Trump has nominated billionaire entrepreneur and private space traveler Jared Isaacman as a NASA administrator, signaling a push toward privatizing space travel and consolidating resources. This includes a potential move of NASA headquarters from Washington, D.C., to one of its centers to streamline operations.

The incoming US president is expected to gut support for research on the environment and infectious diseases, but could buoy work in artificial intelligence, quantum research and space exploration.

A switch to Mars would impact programs such as the moon-focused Space Launch System, a multibillion-dollar rocket that provides jobs in numerous states. The rocket is a key part of Artemis, NASA’s effort to get back to the moon and eventually establish a lunar space station.

NASA is pitching a cheaper and quicker way of getting rocks and soil back from Mars, after seeing its original plan swell to $11 billion. Administrator Bill Nelson presented a revised scenario Tuesday, less than two weeks before stepping down as NASA’s chief when President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated.

NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if the cache can make it back in the 2030s.

Jeff Bezos told Reuters on Sunday that he trusts Elon Musk will not leverage his relationship with President-elect Donald Trump against Blue Origin. Bezos expressed optimism about the new

Distract, Divert, Defund Congress is none too pleased after Elon Musk declared that "the Moon is a distraction" and that NASA should instead be going "straight to Mars." As Politico reports, lawmakers who control NASA's budget are prepared to fight back against Musk's apparent plan to kibosh the space agency's forthcoming lunar landing in favor of his long-running Martian dreams.

Although there has been no indication from the incoming Donald Trump administration that they ... said he hopes the federal government will move NASA's headquarters to Florida's Space Coast.

The Mars Sample Return effort was billions of dollars over budget and not expected to return to Earth with its samples until 2040.

Donald Trump has referred to climate change as a ‘scam’ and a hoax’, so it should come at no surprise that the ‘drill, baby, drill’ Republican is preparing to make some climate protection changes.