The results will be worth the effort and the cost, not just in understanding the world around us in general but also in ...

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

A casualty stemming from this projected budget bombshell is the Mars Sample Return (MSR) venture. In fact, MSR is tagged in the White House's proposed 2026 budget as "grossly over budget and whose ...

Earth Return Orbiter to capture the orbiting sample container in Mars orbit. ESA is evaluating NASA's plan. Provided by NASA ...

Captured by the Orbiter's High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera, the shot was taken on February 28 this ...

Two major projects involving ESA — the Gateway lunar orbiting station and Mars Sample Return (MSR ... key element of Gateway and the Earth Return Orbiter for MSR. ESA Director General ...

The release of NASA's latest budget reveals the Orion spacecraft and Lunar Gateway space station are getting the chop. The ...

[Photo/China National Space Administration] China has begun soliciting cooperation proposals for its ambitious Mars sample-return mission ... a service capsule, an orbiter and a reentry module.

1 mph. A photo snapped recently by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter provides a pretty cool visualization of what the rover has been up to so far this year, showing the tracks Curiosity left ...

China on Thursday extended an invitation for international cooperation on its upcoming Tianwen-3 Mars sample-return mission ... service module, orbiter, and return module, and is equipped with ...

Curiosity has been the subject of countless selfies and images taken from space, but has never been photographed from Mars' own orbit. The reconnaissance orbiter, which has been circling Mars ...