A chalk stick size piece of Mars may contain evidence of ancient microbial activity, but the mission intended to bring it to Earth has been canceled. NASA’s Perseverance rover has the Sapphire Canyon sample sealed inside its chassis,

US officials canceled NASA’s ambitious Mars Sample Return program, leaving potential evidence of ancient life sitting on Mars. Could China beat them to it?

NASA is preparing to explore deep craters on the moon, known as the Marius Hills pit, to determine if ancient underground caves could provide shelter for future astronauts.

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Approved grants face extra reviews and delays, and observers fear a behind-the-scenes installation of proposed political reviews.

Nasa engineers have tested whether an engineering model of the DAVINCI Venus descent probe can protect its scientific instruments from the extreme heat it will encounter while travelling through the planet’s atmosphere.

The US space and energy agencies have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding establishing a framework for end-to-end collaboration across the full spectrum of space nuclear development. ;

On Sept. 18, a gamma-ray detector aboard NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory began picking up flashes of the highest-energy light again. It had been switched off for five months. Three days later, flight controllers restored the telescope’s ability to turn automatically toward new outbursts in the sky,