See how the Sample Transfer Arm for the Mars Sample Return mission will work in this animation. Credit: ESA/NASA ...

Dozens of NASA's missions to explore the cosmos could be in jeopardy under a budget proposal from the Trump administration.

"To decide not to return them, or to put it off to an indefinite future time with human missions would be to take a major step back in exploring the solar system and the universe and in continuing to ...

After billions of dollars in spending and decades of planning, NASA may be forced to abandon precious samples of air, rock ...

Uncover the uncertain fate of NASA's ambitious Mars Sample Return mission scheduled for 2027. As spiraling costs and delays ...

The results will be worth the effort and the cost, not just in understanding the world around us in general but also in determining if there has ever been life on Mars.

Dozens of NASA's spaceflight missions that launched from Florida could be in jeopardy under a budget proposal from the Trump ...

Andy Weir's bestselling story "The Martian" predicts that by 2035 NASA will have landed humans on Mars three times, perfected ...

The data was captured by NASA’s MAVEN, which entered a Mars-bound orbit back in 2014. Since then, the spacecraft has captured ...

The authors also noted why colonising Mars would not be good for science. Lanza pointed out that terraforming Mars will ...

Sterilizing robotic spacecraft to prevent contamination is one thing, but sterilizing human beings is impossible. We are ...