Research Articles
AMBITION: The Quest to Bring Home a Piece of a Comet
Discover the AMBITION mission - ESA's ambitious plan to retrieve the first-ever cryogenic sample from a comet nucleus and unlock secrets of our cosmic origins.
The Little Mission That Could: How Small Spacecraft Are Revolutionizing Lunar Sample Return
Exploring the challenges and innovative solutions for affordable small lunar sample-return missions that are revolutionizing space exploration.
Silent Thrusters to the Red Planet: How Electric Propulsion Powers Mars Sample Return
Exploring how solar electric propulsion enables the ambitious Mars Sample Return mission to bring Martian rocks back to Earth by 2033.