NASA's Perseverance rover has grabbed another rock that may contain clues as to whether there was life on Mars. Officials with the Mars mission announced the milestone briefly Monday (Aug. 1) on ...
The discovery is just the latest to come from the asteroid sample, which dates back to the dawn of the solar system.
China plans to launch two heavy-lift Long March 5 rockets with elements of the Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission in 2028, the mission’s chief designer said Thursday. In a presentation at a Chinese ...
NASA is looking for ways to get rock samples back from Mars for less than the $11 billion the agency would need under its own plan, so last month, officials put out a call to industry to propose ideas ...
Render of the Tianwen-2 near-Earth asteroid/comet orbiter spacecraft. Credit: CNSA HELSINKI — China will launch the Tianwen-2 mission to sample a near-Earth asteroid next year, an official with the ...
WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (Reuters) - NASA and Chinese officials are engaged in talks to let American scientists analyze rocks retrieved by China from the moon, according to the head of the U.S. space agency ...
India’s Chandrayaan‑4 mission aims to bring Moon soil and rocks back to Earth. The ambitious mission could reveal the Moon’s ancient secrets and strengthen India’s space leadership.