NASA plans to ignite a controlled fire on the moon as part of an experiment to better understand how flames behave during ...

The probe will conduct a detailed scientific survey of the asteroid and send a sample back to Earth for further analysis.

A new policy paper proposes a lunar biocontainment facility for extraterrestrial samples. This secure lunar laboratory would ...

The scientist has outlined the 'potentially devastating and irreversible long-term impacts' of unknown organisms in space ...

Not everyone who wants to go to Mars needs to leave Earth to help get humanity there. NASA is recruiting volunteers to spend ...

Although he says there's no evidence of alien life, Isaacman believes we could discover it within our lifetime ...

A new study proposes examining Mars and other space samples on the Moon before bringing them to Earth, arguing it would ...

NASA wants to light a fire on the moon – but it’s for science - The experiment could launch as soon as later this year ...

Scientists are calling for a lunar quarantine facility where samples from Mars, the Moon, and beyond would be examined before being brought to Earth. They warn that even a tiny alien microorganism ...

A Chinese spacecraft on a mission to collect and return samples of a near-Earth asteroid beamed back its first image of its ...

China Chang'e-6 mission has successfully returned to Earth carrying samples of the far side of the moon. Watch the mission ...