The Mars Sample Return mission has been ranked as the highest priority by planetary scientists, who hope to find signs of ...

Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more! In 2020, the estimated cost of that Mars sample return plan maxed out at around $3 billion. By April 2024 ...

A fresh look inside Mars suggests that what lurks far beneath its dusty surface might change how we think about water on the ...

Space agencies worldwide are gearing up missions in 2025 to expand humanity's horizons, from the moon and Mars to asteroids and beyond.

Two radio telescopes with 40-meter-diameter antennas, one located on Changbai Mountain, Jilin province, and the other in ...

researchers from the Deep Space Exploration Laboratory and collaborating institutions within China laid out a plan for Tianwen-3, a two-spacecraft Mars lander mission planned by the China National ...

Liquid water seems to be a necessity for life. And from the 19th century to the early days of the exploration of space, ...

NASA has named a space agency veteran as deputy manager of its Gateway program, central to the Artemis mission to return to ...

NASA wants to return Mars samples to Earth, but budget problems and technical woes have the mission caught between a rock and the Red Planet. There appears to be an unofficial robotic space race ...

Deep Space Station 23, NASA’s latest addition to its Deep Space Network, recently reached a major milestone with the installation of its 133-ton reflector dish. This cutting-edge antenna, located at ...

Following the deployment of the two new telescopes, the Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) network in China now includes one control center in Shanghai and six stations in Shanghai, Urumqi, ...

If someone died on a low-Earth-orbit mission, such as aboard the International Space Station, the crew could return the body to Earth in a capsule within a matter of hours. If it happened on the Moon, ...