NASA's Perseverance rover is digging deeper into Mars' geologic past as it begins grinding into rock surfaces to expose ...

"Returning the scientifically selected samples that await us on Mars, as part of a balanced portfolio, will help to ensure ...

China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission could bring Red Planet rocks back to Earth as early as 2031—years ahead of competing U.S.-European efforts ...

A Chinese team has detailed an innovative drone plan for acquiring Martian samples, incorporating measures to mitigate ...

The US is granting $10 billion (8.5 billion) for Moon missions that go against what SpaceX boss Elon Musk hopes to see from ...

In 2025, space exploration enters a new era with missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond, led by NASA, ISRO, ESA, JAXA, and ...

See how the Sample Transfer Arm for the Mars Sample Return mission will work in this animation. Credit: ESA/NASA ...

This is the extinction-level event we were warning people about,” said Casey Dreier, the chief of space policy at The Planetary Society, as the parameters of the White House’s 2026 NASA budget ...

NASA was to supply some critical technologies for the mission, which Europe may not be able to readily replace.

The proposed national US budget for 2026 contains a few nasty surprises for NASA, and some serious disappointments—among them ...

NASA’s clean-rooms are meant to be the surgical suites of spaceflight—over-pressurised, HEPA-filtered boxes where not even a stray eyelash should survive. Yet ...