NASA is smoothing out the final details of its future program to bring back treasured martian samples, also known as the Mars Sample Return Program, and its new helicopters might make future missions ...

NASA is delaying plans to move the Mars Sample Return program to its next phase of development after an independent review found serious issues with its technical readiness, cost and schedule. Credit: ...

To date, humans have only returned samples to Earth from a few other bodies in the solar system: the Moon, asteroids Itokawa, Ryugu, and Bennu, and the tailings of comet Wild 2. Mars Sample Return is ...

U.S. EPA conducts research to develop sampling strategies and procedures addressing areas affected by wide-area chemical, biological (pathogen and/or biotoxin), or radiological contamination incidents ...