Nature

NASA won’t bring Mars samples back to Earth: this is the science that will be lost

A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples ...
SpaceNews

Perseverance continues science mission amid uncertainty about Mars Sample Return

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is continuing its mission to collect samples despite uncertainty about when or if those ...
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Environmental samples from BioLab fire could contain ‘Erin Brokovich’ carcinogen

When Georgia environmental officials analyzed the first ash samples collected after the September 2024 BioLab chemical fire ...
Global Times

Four mice, other space science samples from China Space Station successfully return, to be delivered to scientists

The ninth batch of space science experiment samples including four mice used in life-science tests returned by the Shenzhou-21 spacecraft from the China Space Station on Friday have been delivered to ...
SpaceRef

Return Science Sample Capability as Important as Station Resupply

While the first NASA Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) flight to the International Space Station is historic, the delivery and more importantly the return of science samples is pivotal. Since the ...
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Winning the Red Planet race: Returning Mars samples before China should be a top US priority, experts say

For astronaut safety and to bolster success of the human exploration to come later, NASA needs an end-to-end demonstration of ...
Popular Science

First Martian rock samples from Perseverance edge closer to settling water question

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. After an initial fumble, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is on a ...

Science Keeps Changing. So Why Should We Trust It?

As popular mistrust of expert opinion grows, we increasingly encounter the following skeptical argument about science: ...
The Washington Post

Rock samples aren’t archived or shared. They need to be, geologists warn, pointing to a ‘reproducibility crisis.’

Why did everything in the teeming oceans of the Late Devonian period (which ended about 358 million years ago) go extinct? Did Earth’s entire surface cool into a “snowball” at some point in prehistory ...