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 ...

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 ...

Once acquired, that sample will live in the rover's belly and could one day return to Earth for detailed analysis. For now, NASA will have to figure out what went wrong and try again. Share on ...

NASA and China are locked in an unprecedented competition to achieve humanity's first rocket launch from another planet's surface, with Mars samples worth their weight in scientific gold hanging in ...

NASA bit off more than it could chew when it sent the Perseverance rover to Mars to collect samples. The $2.4 billion mission landed the rover in Jezero Crater, the site of an ancient lake. It's the ...