"There are incredibly tantalizing samples in the Perseverance rover's cache that could revolutionize our understanding of ...

It looks like NASA's Mars Sample Return mission has come to a bureaucratic end. The mission was to be the crowning ...

A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples ...

Bringing samples from Mars back to Earth is one of NASA's most ambitious goals. The plan goes back to the 1970s, with NASA's robotic exploration program, when the first spacecraft landed on the ...

Mars has an active, electrically charged surface where dust storms and spinning dust devils regularly move and reshape the ...

A metallic, turtle shaped boulder sitting upright in the dusty floor of Jezero Crater has abruptly become the most talked about stone in the solar system. NASA’s Perseverance rover has spotted a rock ...

This summer, scientists spotted an incredibly rare visitor to Earth’s solar system—a comet, now known as 3I/ATLAS, that entered our solar system from the galaxy beyond and is zipping past the sun at a ...