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

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

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

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

Astronomers have spotted centimeter-sized “pebbles” swirling around two infant stars 450 light-years away, revealing the raw ...

President Donald Trump's tax breaks and spending cuts bill includes cuts to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ...

High‐resolution images from orbiting spacecraft have revealed an extraordinary network of over 15,000 km of fluvial sinuous ...

The Planetary Society notes that recreating many of these missions would require billions in new funding. Visualizing the cuts This graphic visualizes NASA missions impacted by the proposed 2026 ...

Credit: The Planetary Society; CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license The White House’s FY 2026 budget request for NASA proposes a radical shift in the agency’s direction, proposing extinction-level cuts to ...

Algae grown under Mars-like conditions could make bioplastic building materials for structures to harbor life in space.

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