Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get them ...

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

NASA will explore two different strategies for fetching Mars rocks collected by the Perseverance rover, and there's a chance these samples contain evidence of alien life. When you purchase through ...

China achieved a historic feat by bringing back the first-ever sample from the lunar far side in June. Its moon lander, Chang'e 6, used a robotic scoop and drill to collect approximately 5 pounds (2 ...

China’s Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission is set to launch this month, May 2025, en route to the asteroid Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3). The country could join the United States and Japan, whose space ...

Earlier this month, outgoing NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and other agency officials presented two possible plans for the mission, known as Mars Sample Return, for the incoming administration. Once ...