With Trump’s new budget cutting NASA science programs, the Mars Sample Return mission could be replaced by a private-sector ...

One lucky bidder will soon fork over millions of dollars to take home NWA 16788, a 54-pound (24-kilogram) Martian meteorite.

China is positioning itself to take the lead in one of the most coveted goals in planetary science—returning samples from ...

After its voyage past Mars, Mariner 4 maintained intermittent communication with JPL and returned data about the ...

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...

China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission could bring Red Planet rocks back to Earth as early as 2031—years ahead of ...

The largest-known piece of Mars to be found on Earth will be up for bid and could be sold for up to $4 million at auction.

The odds of this getting from there to here are astronomically small, Sotheby’s Cassandra Hatton said, as record-breaking Martian meteorite NWA 16788 is set to sell under the hammer in New York.

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Over 2,145 senior NASA employees could leave as the Trump administration proposes a 25% budget cut. The potential layoffs, ...

If we're to land humans on Mars in the coming decades, we'll have to know what challenges await them when they get there.