NASA’s Perseverance rover today completed the collection of the first sample of Martian rock, a core from Jezero Crater slightly thicker than a pencil. Mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...

The Perseverance rover is bristling with scientific instruments and cameras, but it can only do so much on the surface of Mars. Thus, NASA plans to transport the rover's samples back to Earth in the ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has been busy gathering bits of Mars — rock cores the size of chalk sticks, clusters of broken fragments no bigger than pencil erasers, and even grains of dust fine enough to ...

Vital samples from a dried up lakebed on Mars could contain crucial evidence for past life on the Red Planet — but budget overruns are threatening the effort to bring those samples back to Earth, ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. >> NASA’s plan to bring samples from Mars back to Earth is on hold until there’s a faster, cheaper way, ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has assembled a compelling mineralogical case that Jezero crater on Mars once sustained a warm, wet ...

The lead scientist for NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is excited about material that has been stored in the rover's sample tubes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Vital samples from a dried up lakebed on Mars could contain crucial evidence for past life on the ...