Lockheed Martin has been part of all NASA Mars missions to date and it has been part of every single sample return mission to ...

Tantalizing clues in 4-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu samples could reveal particular molecular formations that some ...

A University of Tokyo team achieved the feat with an AI-based rock identification tool that was fed information on rocks on ...

A mission will deliver rock and soil from Mars to laboratories on Earth in the 2030s. Mars Sample Return (MSR) is led by Nasa ...

Analysis of samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu reveal that it has a bizarre chemical make-up and is unusually magnetic ...

A billion-dollar spacecraft, a daring deep-space mission, and one of humanity’s biggest questions: Where did we come from? NASA’s OSIRIS-REx set out to collect a pristine sample from asteroid Bennu, a ...

"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our solar system." ...

A team of scientists just discovered the longest organic molecules yet seen on Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun and and a tantalizing venue for humankind’s search for life beyond Earth.

New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its ...

Nasa says there is a small chance a recently spotted asteroid could collide with the Moon. Studying it can inform our understanding of the Earth's past and our future. Each year, according to Nasa ...