A “selfie” taken by the Perseverance Mars rover as it examines Cheyava Falls, an arrowhead-shaped rock in the center that contains potential biosignatures of past Martian life. Credit: ...

HELSINKI — China is on course to launch its Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission in 2028, according to the mission’s lead. Liu Jizhong, chief designer of Tianwen-3, provided an update on the mission ...

The samples could change what we know about the origins of the solar system. A seven-year-long NASA mission has come to an end with the first asteroid sample collected in space. This capsule, the size ...

NASA's mission is to return rock, soil and others samples to Earth for study. NASA announced Monday it is revising plans for its Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission due to the estimated cost and long ...

A critical NASA mission in the search for life beyond Earth, Mars Sample Return, is in trouble. Its budget has ballooned from US$5 billion to over $11 billion, and the sample return date may slip from ...

The space agency needs an additional $250 million this fiscal year to make sure the Martian mission stays on schedule to launch in 2028. Reading time 2 minutes NASA’s quest to return rocky samples ...

The first mission to return samples from another planet will touch down on Earth in 2033, according to NASA and European Space Agency officials. The Perseverance rover is currently collecting the ...

April 25 (UPI) --A critical NASA mission in the search for life beyond Earth, Mars Sample Return, is in trouble. Its budget has ballooned from $5 billion to over $11 billion, and the sample return ...

NASA wants to return Mars samples to Earth, but budget problems and technical woes have the mission caught between a rock and the Red Planet. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...