As humanity prepares for a new era of space exploration, NASA and other space agencies are planning ambitious missions to Mars and other distant worlds that aim to bring back valuable rock, soil and ...
For as long as we’ve been sending people to space, there has been the worry of bringing back some kind of as-yet-undiscovered pathogen from beyond Earth. So far, thankfully, nothing has come of the ...
Scientists have proposed building a lunar quarantine facility to examine samples returned from Mars and other celestial bodies before they ever reach Earth, arguing that the Moon could serve as a ...