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, ...

“This finding by Perseverance …is the closest we have ever come to discovering life on Mars,” said acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy in a statement. “The identification of a potential biosignature ...

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Red hexagons mark the four sites where the Perseverance rover collected rock samples around the sediment fan in Jezero crater in 2022. Over the course of nearly five months in 2022, NASA's ...

After an independent review concluded NASA's plans to robotically collect and return rock and soil samples from Mars could cost up to $11 billion, NASA "pulled the plug" and is focusing on two options ...

NASA's Perseverance rover may have uncovered hints of ancient Martian life, but China's Tianwen 3 mission could be the first to deliver samples back to Earth. When you purchase through links on our ...

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