OSIRIS-REx bringing asteroid samples to Earth - NASA explains

NASA Planetary Scientist Noah Petro dishes on what it took plan the impressive touch-and-go return mission, why much of the ...

One Mars spacecraft, two senators, and a cloud of questions

What is not controversial is that NASA needs a new spacecraft capable of relaying communications from Mars to Earth. NASA’s best communications relay today is the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which ...
KPBS

Osiris REx: Countdown to Launch

Stream now with KPBS Passport on KPBS+ / Watch Tuesday, July 7, 2026 at 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV. The half-hour documentary ...
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NASA’s Perseverance rover flagged a possible sign of ancient life on Mars

NASA’s Perseverance rover has identified mineral and organic patterns inside a Martian rock that the agency now describes as ...
The Gazette

Mars Sample Return mission in jeopardy, Lockheed Martin thinks it can still be done

Companies in the space industry set up their displays for the Space Symposium at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs on Saturday, April 11, 2026. (The Gazette, Michael G. Seamans) When it landed on Mars ...
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China Will Bring Back Samples of Mars Before the U.S., Tianwen 3 Mission Goes Up in 2028

For several years now the biggest space agencies in the Western world have been struggling to get going the Mars Sample Return mission, perhaps the most ambitious robotic space mission ever undertaken ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has driven a full 26.2-mile marathon across Mars over five years, and the trail it left is now visible from orbit

NASA's Perseverance rover completes a marathon on Mars as orbit images reveal the remarkable trail left across Jezero Crater.