See the Wolf Moon and Mars pull off a rare vanishing act Monday night
Rising just before sunset on January 13, the Full Wolf Moon will be up all night, and will slip below the western horizon ...
NASA collected potential evidence of life on Mars. Now it’s pitching new plans to retrieve the cache
NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if ...
Evidence of Life on Mars? NASA’s Bold Strategy to Recover the Proof
NASA unveils a groundbreaking approach to bring Martian rock samples back to Earth by 2026, introducing competition between ...
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The Sky This Week from January 10 to 17: Mars reaches opposition
The Red Planet comes closest to Earth, disappears behind the Moon in an occultation, and finally reaches opposition in the ...
NASA to explore two landing options for returning samples from Mars
To maximize chances of successfully bringing the first Martian rock and sediment samples to Earth for the benefit of humanity ...
NASA’s Answer to Mars Sample Return Problem: Develop Two Plans
The Perseverance rover has been collecting Martian rock samples since 2021, but NASA is still figuring out how to bring them ...
NASA has two ideas for how to get samples back from Mars
NASA's Mars Sample Return mission is only in development and has already struggled. Now, the agency has laid out two paths forward.
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NASA: More Time Needed To Plan Mars Sample Return
Space agency says it needs one more year to decide whether its own hardware or a contractor’s will return Martian samples to ...
NASA has two options for soil samples from Mars, decision to be made in 2026
The soil samples collected by the Mars rover Perseverance are to be scientifically examined on Earth. The costly return ...