A NASA spacecraft touched down on the rugged surface of the Bennu asteroid on Tuesday, grabbing a sample of rocks dating back to the birth of our solar system to bring home.

NASA's Perseverance rover may have uncovered hints of ancient Martian life, but China's Tianwen 3 mission could be the first ...

A NASA probe orbiting an asteroid over 100 million miles from Earth will make a perilous attempt on Tuesday to snatch a sample from the celestial body’s rocky surface to bring home the space agency’s ...

The potential “biosignature” isn’t direct evidence of life itself, but rather a leftover sign that textural features on the ...

But while CI chondrites are commonplace, enstatite chondrites are not. These rare asteroids form under extremely high temperature conditions inside the solar system’s inner region. Enstatite ...

"If there is a space race, China's already winning it, and could win it dramatically in the next few decades." ...

Ancient organisms may have left microscopic "biosignatures" on Mars. That's according to NASA scientists, who say a rock ...

Tianwen-2 probe is currently at a distance of about 43 million km (26.7 million mi) from Earth. This places it in a stable ...

NASA officials will unveil details about a new finding connected to a unique sample the Perseverance rover found on Mars ...

NASA has announced that a sample collected on Mars by its Perseverance rover may contain evidence of ancient microbial life Perseverance took the sample from a rock named Cheyava Falls in a dry ...

Prize: NASA could offer a prize—say $3 billion to the first company and $1 billion to a second company—for delivering ...

Ispace of Japan has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with ElevationSpace to develop a private lunar sample return ...