The Mars Sample Return mission is an ambitious endeavor that could see Martian geological specimens returned to Earth to search for signs of life on the Red Planet. When you purchase through links on ...

Over the next few months, NASA will map out a strategy for returning bits of Martian rock and soil to Earth, so scientists can study them for signs of past Red Planet life. That ambitious goal should ...

During his final months as the chief of NASA’s science programs last year, there was one mission Thomas Zurbuchen fretted about more than any other—the agency’s ambitious plan to return rocks from ...

Albuquerque, N.M. – International planning is under way to reinvigorate plans for a Mars sample return mission, with researchers assessing science priorities and strategies to maximize the scientific ...

Some of the special features of NASA's Perseverance Rover involve performing some scientific experiments. One of its missions is to try to find evidence of microbial life that may have once existed on ...

NASA’s pioneering OSIRIS-REx probe has bagged up its precious asteroid sample for return to Earth. OSIRIS-REx has finished stowing the bits of the carbon-rich asteroid Bennu that it snagged last ...