"To decide not to return them, or to put it off to an indefinite future time with human missions would be to take a major ...

NASA budget proposal would slash around US$6 billion (£4.4 billion) in funding. This is a huge reduction, amounting to around ...

Going back to the Moon after half a century, and then to Mars, literally means reinventing the wheel. After all, Mars is a ...

Over the past decade, the Curiosity rover has repeatedly detected methane on the surface of Mars. This gas is often produced ...

China has already collected samples on the moon and brought them back to Earth. A similar mission is planned to Venus to ...

Mass spectrometry (MS) can be effective in identifying unknown compounds, though this can be complicated if spectra is ...