NASA hopes a revised plan will get Mars samples back to Earth faster and cost less than the agency's original plan.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA is pitching a cheaper and quicker way of getting rocks and soil back from Mars, after seeing ...

NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if ...

Previously, the Mars Sample Return mission had been estimated to cost around 11 billion dollars and would not return a sample ...

A team at the University of Calgary is making scientific advances in understanding plant adaptation, which could ultimately be used to find ways to make agricultural crops more resilient to heat ...

Jan. 6, 2025 — New research shows that the sweeping land use changes and irrigation of the U.S. Corn Belt, along with the influence of the area's shallow ... Floods Linked to Rise in US Deaths ...

Earth from space This 2014 satellite photo shows Pakistan's Khor Kalmat tidal lagoon brimming with water at the heart of an arid desert. This fluctuating body of water, which looks like "ink ...