GOLDEN, Colorado – It is considered by many engineers and scientists as the "Holy Grail" of robotic red planet exploration: a Mars Return Sample mission. A newly issued working group report by the ...

An Independent Review Board (IRB) looked at NASA’s current plans and goals of the first mission to return samples from Mars, and NASA is establishing a team to respond. In addition to bringing home ...

A handful of employees of the Sewerage & Water Board repeatedly falsified records of water samples they were supposed to be collecting at various locations around New Orleans to ensure it was safe to ...

During his final months as the chief of NASA’s science programs last year, there was one mission Thomas Zurbuchen fretted about more than any other—the agency’s ambitious plan to return rocks from ...