On day one of this administration, the president included his ambitions for Mars in his inaugural address, and again several weeks later to a joint session of Congress: “We are going to conquer the ...

NASA's plans for Mars sample return are effectively cancelled as part of a bill approved by the U.S. Congress, ending efforts ...

Exploration advocates are pushing back against the planned cancellation of NASA's Mars sample return project, saying it could ...

In a stunning reversal for planetary science, NASA’s high-profile Mars mission to bring rock samples back to Earth has been ...

Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world, scientists reported Wednesday. The findings provide the ...

This photomontage shows tubes containing samples from Mars, as collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. The agency’s Mars Sample Return Program plans to bring these samples back to study them in ...

NASA could get Mars samples back to Earth with a single launch of the Space Launch System rocket, Boeing says. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

NASA awards a $37 million contract for a Lunar Freezer System that will keep fragile lunar samples cold during the journey ...

NASA is looking for ways to get rock samples back from Mars for less than the $11 billion the agency would need under its own plan, so last month, officials put out a call to industry to propose ideas ...

China on Friday launched a lunar probe to land on the far side of the moon in a first-of-its-kind mission to return with samples that could provide insights into differences between the less-explored ...

A diagnostic tool, similar in theory to those used to non-invasively image internal organs could be equally effective at “triaging” extraterrestrial rocks and other samples before they are shipped to ...