Prize: NASA could offer a prize—say $3 billion to the first company and $1 billion to a second company—for delivering ...

The Mars Sample Return Mission was designed to bring pieces of the Red Planet back to Earth, a milestone in space exploration ...

How will NASA conduct its Mars Sample Return (MSR) Program? This is what the renowned space agency recently discussed as it unveiled two potential landing options for MSR with the goal of determining ...

A rock collected by NASA’s Perseverance rover may hold the strongest evidence of life beyond Earth ever found, officials said ...

NASA has shared an update on its beleaguered Mars Sample Return mission, admitting that its previous plan was too ambitious and announcing that it will now be looking for new ideas to make the mission ...

The potential “biosignature” isn’t direct evidence of life itself, but rather a leftover sign that textural features on the ...

Ancient organisms may have left microscopic "biosignatures" on Mars. That's according to NASA scientists, who say a rock ...

The lead scientist for NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is excited about material that has been stored in the rover's sample tubes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

The spacecraft, which will catch a Mars surface sample traveling in Martian orbit and bring it to Earth, has passed its design review. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

This photo taken on June 25, 2024, shows the retrieval site of the return capsule of the Chang’e-6 probe in Siziwang Banner, north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Xinhua/Jin Liwang A Chinese ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- Scientists at the Johnson Space Center this week opened a 50-year-old lunar soil sample they hope will teach them more about the moon and Earth ahead of NASA's upcoming return to the ...