The Mars Sample Return effort was billions of dollars over budget and not expected to return to Earth with its samples until 2040.

NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if ...

Dirt, ice, and greenery can all conceal hidden or forgotten cities. Here are five cities that were rediscovered through ...

SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, welcomes 47 Members as new Fellows of the Society. They join their ...

The upcoming U.S.–India NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) mission will observe Earth like no mission before, ...

The Society is welcoming 47 new Fellow Members from across the globe BELLINGHAM, Wash.--BUSINESS WIRE--This year, SPIE, the ...

Nasa's plan to return Martian rocks to Earth will be decided by the incoming Trump administration. Initially projected to ...

The SR-72 "Son of Blackbird," developed by Lockheed Martin, is set to become the hypersonic inheritor of the iconic SR-71 ...

NASA announced a new approach to its Mars Sample Return Program in which the agency will simultaneously pursue the ...

In April, after an independent review found “near zero probability” of Mars Sample Return making its proposed 2028 launch ...

On November 8, astronomers at Caltech's Palomar Observatory in the mountains above San Diego directed a brand-new ...