If you’ve been following space news recently, you’ve probably heard about Mars Sample Return — NASA’s ambitious plan to collect samples of Martian rocks and bring them back to Earth for study. That ...

Offering incredibly high temperatures, crushing pressure, and a thick mix of carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid, the atmosphere on Venus is deadly to human beings, several times over – but China has ...

Some time in next ten years, a Chinese mission aims to do what’s never been done before: collect cloud particles from Venus and bring them home. But achieving that goal will mean overcoming one of the ...

Additional space in the tubes containing Martian rock could reveal insights into the gases that make up the Red Planet's atmosphere. Reading time 2 minutes The Perseverance rover has been toiling on ...

China aims to launch its Mars sample-return mission in the 2028-2030 timeframe. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space ...

For as long as humans have been sending probes to Mars, there’s been a desire to return rock, soil, and atmosphere samples back to Earth for more detailed analysis. But the physics of such a mission ...

An impression of the greenhouse planet, the third smallest planet in the Solar System (after Mars and Mercury). Venus is almost totally featureless seen from space, owing to its dense carbon-dioxide ...