"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 ...

China's Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission is set to launch this month, May 2025, en route to the asteroid Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3). The country could join the United States and Japan, whose space ...

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.

All told, the total cost of the Mars Sample Return mission is now about $10 billion. NASA and its international partners, including the European Space Agency, have wanted to return material from ...

The mission team whisked away the canister the day after its arrival to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, which has a clean room specially built for careful analysis of the cosmic sample.

He was sympathetic to the challenges facing Mars Sample Return managers, though chagrined that the James Webb Space Telescope’s hard-earned lessons have apparently faded so quickly ...

The Wolf Amendment, a law that prevents bilateral cooperation in space research between the U.S. and China, is preventing U.S ...

China hopes Tianwen-2 will match the success of its US and Japanese space rivals by exploring an unusual Near-Earth Asteroid ...

The sample from the asteroid Bennu, collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission, was unveiled at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., on Friday. When you purchase ...

Moon Sample Talks Show Space Engagement by Rivals US and China By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA and Chinese officials are engaged in talks to let American scientists analyze rocks ...