The China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced the Tianwen 3, a daring Mars sample return mission to launch in 2028.

NASA's Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission could have been a major breakthrough in assessing the habitability of the Red Planet. Unfortunately, however, it has effectively been cancelled, as the U.S.

As stated in Chapter 8, the proper design and implementation of planetary protection measures will ultimately be critical to the overall success of martian sample-return missions. Mission success can ...

A question has intrigued astronomers for decades: are the moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, captured asteroids or fragments ...

SAMPLE RETURN Crewmembers on the International Space Station may get to test concepts for a future Mars Sample Return mission, using the station's pressurized volume to simulate the microgravity ...

Only companies that worked on the Mars Sample Return program need apply, narrowing the field to a handful of space industry heavyweights. NASA is looking for ways to improve the communications network ...

A consequential debate that has been simmering behind closed doors at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC, must soon come to a head. It concerns the selection of the next spacecraft the agency will ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In July of 2020, NASA engineers sent a rover named Perseverance hurtling into space. And ...