Mars, NASA and Earth

Mars rock samples may contain evidence of alien life, but can NASA get them back to Earth?
NASA will explore two different strategies for fetching Mars rocks collected by the Perseverance rover, and there's a chance these samples contain evidence of alien life.
NASA collected Mars rocks to haul to Earth. It still doesn’t know how.
The Mars Sample Return mission has been ranked as the highest priority by planetary scientists, who hope to find signs of ancient life on Mars.
NASA scrapped its $11 billion scheme to grab Mars rocks that may point to alien life. Now it has a faster, cheaper plan.
NASA's mission to return samples from Mars and potentially discover the first signs of alien life has a new timeline. The samples may arrive sooner.
NASA Will Let Trump Decide How to Bring Mars Rocks to Earth
The Mars Sample Return effort was billions of dollars over budget and not expected to return to Earth with its samples until 2040.
NASA proposes cheaper, quicker way to get Mars rocks and soil to Earth
NASA is pitching a cheaper and quicker way of getting rocks and soil back from Mars, after seeing its original plan swell to $11 billion. Administrator Bill Nelson presented a revised scenario Tuesday,
NASA’s plans to get Mars rocks delivered to the Utah desert are changing
Bringing Martian rock and soil samples to Earth is among the top priorities of planetary scientists. By studying fresh rocks up close with the latest, most powerful instruments in their laboratories,
NASA will decide how to bring soil samples back from Mars in 2026
The Mars Sample Return program has been way over budget and, according to NASA's administrator, has been "out of control." Now, the agency is exploring new options to get its Martian rock and dust samples back home to Earth.
Scientist makes startling discovery at Earth's deepest point: 'What a disgusting and embarrassing display'
"This discarded trash had managed to reach an unsullied part of our world before we actually did — a symbol of how deeply and ...
Earth's air war: Explaining the delayed rise of plants and animals on land
If you like the smell of spring roses, the sounds of summer bird song, and the colors of fall foliage, you have the ...
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Building blocks of life on Earth left the Milky Way before being pulled back in
You may be stuck in the Milky Way but new research suggests the carbon that makes up your body took an intergalactic round ...
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Scientists Find the Mysterious Source of the Massive 1831 Volcanic Eruption That Cooled Earth and Made the Sun Appear Blue
The climate-altering eruption came from the Zavaritskii volcano on an uninhabited island in the Pacific that once hosted a ...
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Earth’s ozone layer took more than two billion years to stabilize
New research shows iodine in Earth’s early atmosphere delayed the ozone layer’s stabilization, affecting life evolution.
Unlocking Earth’s climate secrets: Scientists drill nearly 2 miles deep in Antarctica
The same team previously drilled a core about 800,000 years old. The latest drilling went 2.8 kilometers (about 1.7 miles) ...
Sunken worlds under the Pacific? High-res models reveal workings of Earth's mantle
Geophysicists at ETH Zurich are using models of the lower mantle to identify areas where earthquake waves behave differently ...
Submerged tectonic plates? Scientists find anomalies deep within Earth's mantle
Using high-resolution models and the Piz Daint supercomputer, researchers identified anomalies beneath oceans and continental ...
Climate Models Can’t Explain What’s Happening to Earth
Global warming is moving faster than the best models can keep a handle on. Fifty years into the project of modeling Earth’s ...
Oprah Winfrey selects "A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose" as book club pick: Read a free excerpt
Awakening to Your Life's Purpose" as her latest book club choice. The book encourages readers to find peace and purpose.
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New NASA robot with X-ray vision will watch Earth 'breathing' from the moon
NASA's LEXI instrument is set to land on the moon's surface sometime this month. Using X-ray sensors, the device will watch ...