All told, the total cost of the Mars Sample Return mission is now about $10 billion. NASA and its international partners, including the European Space Agency, have wanted to return material from ...

The Wolf Amendment, a law that prevents bilateral cooperation in space research between the U.S. and China, is preventing U.S ...

A sky full of ads? A Russian company has already taken the first step toward making this wild idea a reality. Space is the next frontier of free real estate for commercial purposes, though many ...

The samples are also providing a window into understanding what kind of chemical and biological processes were already underway as space rocks chaotically ricocheted around during the early days ...

NASA revealed Wednesday that newly returned samples from a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid contain traces of carbon and water — molecules that are thought to make up the building blocks of life.

A newly discovered bacterial species aboard China's Tiangong space station may offer insights into how life can survive and ...

A photo montage showing sample tubes shortly after they were deposited ... Jeff Foust writes about space policy, commercial space, and related topics for SpaceNews. He earned a Ph.D. in planetary ...