and failing to deliver even close to anything resembling “on time” makes it seem like a risky play to bet the success of the sample return mission on what they’re promising. We’ll have to ...

Earlier this year, the tiny rocket company that wants to grow up to be SpaceX someday told NASA that, if it's agreeable, ...

After months of turmoil over the future of a vaunted mission to bring samples of the Red Planet back to Earth, NASA has its verdict on Mars Sample Return. The space agency is “committed” to ...

He said the Senate currently is budgeting $200 million for ongoing development of the Mars Sample Return mission in NASA's fiscal 2025 budget. The House number is $600 million. Whatever number is ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu after the mission returned its samples to Earth in 2023.

already within the titanium sample tube in which it will remain until the sample return mission. The bit carousel, which transitions bits and samples from vertical to horizontal with just a single ...

NASA’s Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission promises to fill significant gaps in our understanding of the universe and propel humanity forward in a new phase of the space race. Exploring the cosmos ...

China plans to launch an asteroid sample return mission this year. Many are pushing for a mission to collect rocks and dirt from the potentially waterlogged dwarf planet Ceres in the main asteroid ...

Credit: CNSA/PEC HELSINKI — China is inviting interested parties to submit proposals to join the country’s pioneering Mars sample return mission, due to launch in late 2028. The China National ...

Following the USSR’s Luna 24 sample-return mission in 1976, the Moon’s surface remained undisturbed by visitors for decades, save for the occasional impact. Finally, the 1990s saw a revival in ...

India is expected to launch it fourth lunar mission, Chandrayaan-4, to collect and return the lunar surface samples to earth ...

Sun Zezhou, a deputy to the National People's Congress (NPC) and a senior engineer at CASC, said the purpose of the Mars sample return mission is to search for water. If accessible water resources ...