The mission team used the capsule’s beacon to estimate its landing site and searched for it using a helicopter. They located it in the projected landing site, along with the parachute, around 2:47 p.m ...

NASA's Perseverance rover successfully pulled off its hazardous landing on the surface of Mars — but more unprecedented challenges lie ahead. A decade from now, in 2031, it will be the first ever to ...

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Returning to Earth is only the beginning of the journey for these pieces of asteroid Bennu. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Six ...

NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return program currently faces extreme costs of up to $11 billion and a timeline that could reach 2040. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Within a decade, a small rover on Mars will pick up samples of rock left by a previous mission. It will then load them into a rocket secured within a small platform on a flat patch of the planet’s ...

At a recent workshop in Washington, D.C., on the science of NASA’s Mars Sample Return (MSR) program, the mood was excited but tense. The space agency had just dropped a bombshell announcement that it ...

Scientists have found microorganisms crawling over a sample retrieved from the 200 million-mile-distant asteroid Ryugu. But they almost certainly came from Earth. When you purchase through links on ...