"If there is a space race, China's already winning it, and could win it dramatically in the next few decades." ...

NASA scientists say a rock sample collected by the Perseverance rover in Jezero Crater may contain the strongest signs yet of ...

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 ...

If it pans out, it may complicate Elon Musk’s dreams of founding a settlement on the fourth planet from the sun.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 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’s other rover, Perseverance, landed in the Jezero Crater on February 18, 2021, to search for signs of ancient life and ...

On Wednesday, NASA researchers said the answer might be in a rock sample that “contains potential biosignatures.” NASA and the European Space Agency are gearing up to bring home a pristine sample of ...

China's Chang'e 5 mission brought back evidence that the moon had erupting volcanoes just 120 million years ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.