The company that brought back the dire wolf is launching a new biovault to store the genomes of the most at-risk species.

NASA's Perseverance rover discovered rocks on Mars, providing new evidence the red planet was once a wet, habitable world that could support life.

Update: A minibus spending package passed by the House of Representatives on January 8, 2026, effectively cancels the Mars Sample Return program by eliminating almost all funding for future missions.

Marking the start of the fall 2025 semester at Luther College, President Brad Chamberlain introduced a new college mission statement, along with supporting identity, vision and values statements, to ...

Using just 3.5 grams of lunar soil collected from the far side of the Moon, Chinese researchers have precisely dated the formation of the Apollo basin — one of the far side’s largest craters — to 4.16 ...

On day one of this administration, the president included his ambitions for Mars in his inaugural address, and again several weeks later to a joint session of Congress: “We are going to conquer the ...

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Mission could make China third nation to retrieve asteroid rocks Mission aims to explore asteroid, comet millions of miles away Asteroid landing, sampling tougher than China's lunar missions Plans ...

BEIJING (Reuters) -China embarked on Thursday on its first mission to retrieve samples from a nearby asteroid, with the nighttime launch of its Tianwen-2 spacecraft, set to make the fast-growing space ...