China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission is entering flight hardware development, targeting a late 2028 launch to seek out biosignatures on the Red Planet. The mission has achieved breakthroughs ...

NASA and China are locked in an unprecedented competition to achieve humanity's first rocket launch from another planet's surface, with Mars samples worth their weight in scientific gold hanging in ...

NASA may have discovered a biosignature on Mars, but could China be in position to get crucial samples back to Earth first to make a definitive analysis? NASA's Perseverance team announced on Sept. 10 ...

NASA has set a goal to return rock and soil samples from the surface of Mars in the 2030s. The mission would represent the first time scientific samples from another planet have been returned to Earth ...