NASA established the board in May 2023 to evaluate the technical, cost, and schedule plans prior to confirmation of the mission’s design. NASA's mission to return samples from Mars, a collaboration ...

Sep. 20, 2023 — The first use of a novel method of analyzing Mars' gravitational force supports the idea that the planet once had an extensive northern ocean. In doing so, the method defines the ...

A small capsule containing the asteroid sample collected by the OSIRIS-REx probe is expected to touch down at the U.S.

Scientists have developed a simple test in the search for alien life, they claim. The breakthrough helps the search for the ...

STARBASE is a STEM education program that serves Northeastern Minnesota, across 19 school districts and 44 schools. “Students ...

In the grand scheme of things, it wasn’t all that long ago that the entire body of knowledge of our solar system was built solely with Earth-based observations. Turning first their naked eyes to ...

Scientists claim they have recovered material that originated outside our solar system for the first time in history. Alien-hunting Harvard physicist Professor Avi Loeb said early analysis of ...

A NASA space capsule carrying the largest soil sample ever scooped up from the surface of an asteroid streaked through ...

NASA and the European Space Agency are developing plans for one of the most ambitious campaigns ever attempted in space: bringing the first samples of Mars ...

OSIRIS-REx brought asteroid material weighing about 250 grams to the Earth. The sample return capsule landed in the Utah ...

Starpath Robotics has emerged from stealth with an ambitious plan to design, launch and operate machines to mine and refine ...

The convicted killer appeared to have lost weight behind bars, and was seen at times grimacing as his lawyers tried to push a ...