NASA seeks ‘Hail Mary’ for mission to return Mars rocks

The mission, known as Mars Sample Return, is central to the search for signs that life may have existed on the red planet. The idea is to bring samples of rock and soil back to Earth so that ... Read More

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Threats are mounting in space ... on the lunar surface this year. It is easier to tip over in the weaker gravity on the moon than you may imagine. Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket rolled to ... Read More

NASA seeks cheaper ideas for Mars sample return mission amid budget crunch

NASA is seeking a cheaper, simpler approach to one of its top science priorities in the midst of a budget crunch - retrieving precious soil samples collected on Mars and flying them back to Earth, U.S ... Read More

NASA budget woes could doom $2 billion Chandra space telescope

Casey Dreier, chief of space policy for the Planetary Society, wrote in a recent column that even with a 2 percent bump in NASA’s overall ... An independent review board last year said the ... Read More

Rare star explosion expected to be 'once-in-a-lifetime viewing opportunity,' NASA officials say

Another special cosmic event is to occur this year, and it could ... lead for NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office (MEO) at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, told ... Read More

Ingenuity's travels: New NASA video tracks Mars helicopter's 72 flights

NASA's history-making Ingenuity helicopter covered a lot of ground on Mars over the past three years, as a new video shows ... Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches ... Read More

NASA's planet-hunter TESS temporarily shuts off

April 11 (UPI) --NASA's ... a valuable product. Science News // 2 days ago Boeing Starliner rolls to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station ahead of May launch April 16 (UPI) -- Boeing's Starliner ... Read More

Nasa: 'New plan needed to return rocks from Mars'

The quest to return rock materials from Mars to Earth to see if they contain traces of past life is going to go through a major overhaul. The US space agency says ... Mars crash ends Nasa helicopter ... Read More

Video: Space junk crashed through family's roof, NASA says

A mysterious object, suspected to be space debris, crashed into a Florida family's home, leaving them in shock ... the International Space Station (ISS).NASA confirmed it was from the ISS on ... Read More