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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A close up of multi-colored rock against a background showing a reddish-orange dusty landscape littered with rocks. The lead ...

This image shows the rocky outcrop the Perseverance science team calls Berea after the NASA Mars rover extracted a rock core and abraded a circular patch. The image was taken by the rover's Mastcam-Z ...

Marvels of engineering, the rover’s sample tubes must be tough enough to safely bring Red Planet samples on the long journey back to Earth in immaculate condition. The tubes carried in the belly of ...

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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is collecting samples that could be evidence of ancient alien life. But NASA's Mars Sample Return mission to bring them to Earth will now cost $11 billion and take two ...

Earlier this month, outgoing NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and other agency officials presented two possible plans for the mission, known as Mars Sample Return, for the incoming administration. Once ...

Additional space in the tubes containing Martian rock could reveal insights into the gases that make up the Red Planet's atmosphere. Reading time 2 minutes The Perseverance rover has been toiling on ...

NASA may have discovered a biosignature on Mars, but could China be in position to get crucial samples back to Earth first to make a definitive analysis? NASA's Perseverance team announced on Sept. 10 ...