A casualty stemming from this projected budget bombshell is the Mars Sample Return (MSR) venture. In fact, MSR is tagged in the White House's proposed 2026 budget as "grossly over budget and whose ...

Sampling the core, they found that they had hit the jackpot. The ice core sample contained two distinct layers, with the top layer dating to around 2.95 million years old. Beneath this layer ...

But Mars wasn't finished with surprises yet. The "Bell Island" core contained the spherules the team were looking for, but the sample tube was overfilled. This meant that excess core length would ...