China has conducted two spacewalks from its Tiangong space station in as many months and is advancing on its lunar exploration plans with a successful pad abort test of its crewed Mengzhou capsule.

The aerospace giant says it can revive Mars Sample Return with a leaner, lower-cost approach drawing on proven designs.

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

The origin of life is one of the most fundamental and enduring questions of mankind and one of the three greatest Origin ...

Lockheed martin has proposed returning the samples collected by NASA's Perseverance rover at a fixed cost of $3 billion. The ...

The rover has been collecting samples that were intended to be returned to Earth as part of the Mars Sample Return mission in the 2030s, although that is now threatened by the Trump administration ...

NASA Mars Orbiter captures 12-mile-high volcano The new panorama of Mar’s Arsia Mons was captured on May 2. A NASA orbiter has captured a stunning image of a giant volcano on Mars.

China’s Chang’e 6 spacecraft has successfully brought samples from the far side of the moon back to Earth, marking the first-ever return of materials from this scarcely seen lunar region.

The budget also cancels the Mars Sample Return, which is due to bring the rocks taken by Perseverance (including the most exciting for the possibility of life on Mars) back to Earth for detailed ...

Wray is hopeful that he will get his hands on Perseverance’s finds one way or another. “If these samples are returned to Earth, we can do incredible, groundbreaking science with them,” he said.