While NASA's Mars Sample Return initiative is in political hot water, China is moving ahead on plotting out its rendezvous with the Red Planet. China's roadmap for a Mars Sample Return mission to be ...

China’s first Mars rover, Zhurong, with its Tianwen-1 landing platform, which touched down on the Red Planet in May 2021. The mission’s success aided China’s development of the more ambitious ...

Mission could make China third nation to retrieve asteroid rocks Mission aims to explore asteroid, comet millions of miles away Asteroid landing, sampling tougher than China's lunar missions Plans ...

China launched a spacecraft that promises to return samples from an asteroid near Mars and yield “groundbreaking discoveries and expand humanity’s knowledge of the cosmos," the country's space agency ...

International oversight would reduce risks, but could be "a politically sensitive and contentious matter." It is a hot debate bracketed by cold hard facts: What are the best methods for handling Mars ...

NASA’s Mars Dune Alpha is a full-scale habitat designed to simulate life on Mars and test human endurance for future missions ...

Jared Isaacman, US President Donald Trump's two-time appointee to lead NASA, said it was his goal that the United States beat ...

Tech mogul Jared Isaacman underwent a rare second Senate confirmation hearing to assess his qualifications to lead NASA as ...