"If there is a space race, China's already winning it, and could win it dramatically in the next few decades." ...

If it pans out, it may complicate Elon Musk’s dreams of founding a settlement on the fourth planet from the sun.

Ispace of Japan has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with ElevationSpace to develop a private lunar sample return ...

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

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 ...

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

On Wednesday, NASA researchers said the answer might be in a rock sample that “contains potential biosignatures.” NASA and the European Space Agency are gearing up to bring home a pristine sample of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

"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." ...