PHOENIX - In the past few days, NASA has been buzzing about a recent sample collected on Mars with key traits that may hold clues as to whether Mars was home to ancient life. "It's the way we will ...

Every season, scientists from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) go on field trips to the Pyrenees. Their mission: gather snapdragon flowers to understand their genetic makeup.

China’s Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission is set to launch this month, May 2025, en route to the asteroid Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3). The country could join the United States and Japan, whose space ...

An artist's rendering depicts the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft contacting the asteroid Bennu with the Touch-and-Go Sample Arm Mechanism. In samples taken from a distant asteroid, scientists have discovered a ...

The Australian Antarctic Program has arrived at the World Heritage listed Heard Island and McDonald Islands and has completed ...