When researchers finally cracked open the canisters from asteroid Bennu, they were not just sifting through dust. They were staring at a chemical time capsule packed with sugars, amino acids, salt ...

NASA is looking for ways to get rock samples back from Mars for less than the $11 billion the agency would need under its own plan, so last month, officials put out a call to industry to propose ideas ...

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NASA has selected ten studies aimed at finding more affordable and quicker means of retrieving samples collected from the Martian surface and returning them to Earth. When you purchase through links ...

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Missions and Discoveries. Artemis II Mission: Astronauts to Orbit the Moon. Get ready, space fans! NASA’s Artemis II mission ...

After years of anticipation and hard work by the mission team, the University of Arizona-led NASA OSIRIS-REx mission has successfully landed a capsule with rocks and dust from the asteroid Bennu in ...

From a return to the moon to telescope launches, there's plenty of exciting events to expect from space this year ...

It’s a big universe out there—13.8 billion years old, full of hundreds of billions of star-and-planet-packed galaxies and, out past the limits of our sight, perhaps infinite in all directions. But as ...