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 ...

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

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 ...

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With recent cuts to Mars Sample Return, China will lead the charge to Mars and to the moon. Credit: NASA In the Senate hearing considering the confirmation of Jared Isaacman as NASA Administrator ...

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 ...

The U.S. space agency released the image April 24, which the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped earlier this year. At the time, Curiosity was in the middle of a slow trek across the surface ...

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 ...

[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.

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 ...