Can nasa return samples from mars?

A detailed study of rocks on the Red Planet has revealed intricate patterns resembling leopard spots – “the clearest sign of life we’ve ever found on Mars,” according to NASA’s acting administrator Se

This October marks 50 years since a heavily shielded spacecraft, the Soviet Union’s Venera 9, parachuted into the atmosphere of Venus. Then, having landed, it did something extraordinary: it beamed ba

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On 21 August, in the dead of night, a mysterious spacecraft launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The craft in question was the eerily named X-37B – an experimental and highly secretiv

TRAPPIST-1 is a red dwarf star located about ...

We’ve had a few false alarms before – including fossilised microbes and signs of carbon dioxide production in Martian rocks – but NASA has now cautiously suggested it’s found signs that life once exis