On Sept. 20, 1970, the Soviet Union's Luna 16 moon probe landed on the moon to retrieve a soil sample. Four days later, it ...

Mars rover Perseverance has been able to drill a rock sample in Jezero crater that scientists believe would be key to search ...

Donald Trump is our planet's number one obstacle to following up on NASA's blockbuster findings about life on Mars.

Ancient organisms may have left microscopic "biosignatures" on Mars. That's according to NASA scientists, who say a rock ...

But while CI chondrites are commonplace, enstatite chondrites are not. These rare asteroids form under extremely high temperature conditions inside the solar system’s inner region. Enstatite ...

Prize: NASA could offer a prize—say $3 billion to the first company and $1 billion to a second company—for delivering ...

Precious moon samples brought back to Earth by China's Chang'e 5 mission in 2020 have finally been shared with international researchers — but the law has made it difficult for U.S.-based scientists ...

The potential “biosignature” isn’t direct evidence of life itself, but rather a leftover sign that textural features on the ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover captured a clear panorama of Mars' Gale Crater in August, during the Martian winter when dust levels ...

On its way out, the NASA administration under former President Joe Biden left its successors revised plans to return curated samples from the surface of Mars, an effort that could reveal whether life ...

"We want to look at the effects of long-term exposure to space — as if the Zylon material is going for a potential six- to nine-month mission to Mars." ...

NASA has begun barring Chinese nationals with valid visas from joining its programs, underscoring the intensifying space race ...