NASA announced Friday that it will award contracts to seven companies, including SpaceX and Blue Origin, to study how to transport rock samples from Mars more cheaply back to Earth. The space agency ...

Collagen begins losing its internal organization before skin shows visible signs of aging, thinning, or damage. Researchers used advanced light-based imaging to measure collagen’s chirality, fiber ...

Rocket Lab's MSR study involves two Neutron launches of a sample retrieval lander and Earth return orbiter. Credit: Rocket Lab WASHINGTON — NASA has awarded a contract to Rocket Lab to study ...

An earlier concept for a Mars ascent vehicle, which would transport samples collected from the Martian surface into orbit. Those samples would be returned to Earth by another spacecraft.

Small sample sizes in studies using functional MRI to investigate brain connectivity and function are common in neuroscience, despite years of warnings that such studies likely lack sufficient ...

Researchers identified mostly tiny plastic fragments, which are thought to come from degraded packaging, fishing gear, and other marine debris. A new study found microplastics in every commercial ...