Scientists have begun studying the samples returned from the Moon by China’s Chang’e-5 mission in December 2020, and a group…
Mission controllers at NASA are making final preparations for the Perseverance rover to obtain its first sample of Martian rock,…
Internal geological processes on the moon are almost non-existent. However, when it gets smacked by a space rock, its surface…
JAXA and the Tiger Corporation have come together to develop next-generation cooling containers that will allow for regular sample-returns from…
After more than two years in orbit around asteroid Bennu, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is ready to come home. It's bringing…
Geologists love fieldwork. They love getting their specialized hammers and chisels into seams in the rock, exposing unweathered surfaces and…
You have to be careful what you say to people. When NASA or someone else says that the Perseverance rover…
Images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) show where the Chang'e-5 mission landed. The samples obtained by this lander…
For the first time in more than 40 years, a robotic spacecraft has blasted off from the Moon – and…
The NASA Lunar Deep Freeze Challenge is looking for innovative ideas on how to bring back ice samples from the…