Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On day one of this administration, the president included his ambitions for Mars in his inaugural address, and again several weeks ...

HOUSTON (KTVX) — If you can get a scientist to say “wow,” then you’re in pretty impressive territory. According to NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid researchers, they’ve been saying “wow” quite a bit since ...

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A new study reveals all five fundamental nucleobases – the molecular “letters” of life – have been detected in samples from ...

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A capsule containing precious samples from an asteroid landed safely on Earth on Sunday, the culmination of a roughly 4-billion-mile journey over the past seven years. The asteroid samples were ...

A team of spacecraft will relay Martian rock samples to our planet. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A new video shows how a team ...

NASA announced Friday that it will award contracts to seven companies, including SpaceX and Blue Origin, to study how to transport rock samples from Mars more cheaply back to Earth. The space agency ...

NASA is looking for ways to get rock samples back from Mars for less than the $11 billion the agency would need under its own plan, so last month, officials put out a call to industry to propose ideas ...

NASA's plan to retrieve as many as 30 geological samples from Mars is getting a major rewrite, agency officials said on Monday. The initial plan, which would not return the samples to Earth until 2040 ...