NASA’s Perseverance rover has collected a sample from Mars that has textures “unlike anything we’ve ever seen before.” Known ...

NASA’s Mars rover has collected a rock sample from Mars that has textures “unlike anything we’ve ever seen before,” the space ...

Kevin Righter started at University of Rochester last year, but before that he worked on NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to collect ...

Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...

“This is not our first encounter with the Red Planet. The orbiters ... inputs,” French said. Rocket Lab’s architecture resembles NASA’s original Mars Sample Return profile, with a few ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working under the incoming Trump administration. President-elect Donald Trump ...

Credit: Planet Labs PBC Update (Jan. 10): JPL director Laurie ... It is also the lead center for the Mars Sample Return program. The 168-acre lab has facilities for assembling, testing and ...

With a plan that America's premier space agency describes as its "most ambitious, multi-mission campaign," it intends to send a spacecraft into orbit around the Red Planet, from which it would ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...