"If there is a space race, China's already winning it, and could win it dramatically in the next few decades." ...

Ispace of Japan has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with ElevationSpace to develop a private lunar sample return ...

Prize: NASA could offer a prize—say $3 billion to the first company and $1 billion to a second company—for delivering ...

On Sept. 20, 1970, the Soviet Union's Luna 16 moon probe landed on the moon to retrieve a soil sample. Four days later, it ...

Scientists measure the distance to the Moon by bouncing lasers off mirrors placed there by space probes and astronauts.

"We want to look at the effects of long-term exposure to space — as if the Zylon material is going for a potential six- to nine-month mission to Mars." ...

In a science lab on the fourth floor of UTSA's Multidisciplinary Studies Building, UTSA students engage in meticulous ...

Donald Trump is our planet's number one obstacle to following up on NASA's blockbuster findings about life on Mars.

The potential “biosignature” isn’t direct evidence of life itself, but rather a leftover sign that textural features on the ...

New observations reveal that the asteroid 1998 KY26 is much smaller and spinning much faster than originally thought.

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Ancient organisms may have left microscopic "biosignatures" on Mars. That's according to NASA scientists, who say a rock ...