If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. After several months of traveling through space, NASA’s Perseverance rover and other ...

when we were debating the merits of landing Perseverance in Jezero versus sites outside the crater. At the time, this area seemed just out of reach for a Jezero-focused mission, so I'm thrilled ...

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

The Mars2020 Perseverance Rover took about 8 years to complete here on Earth. Built at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in ...

NASA proposes a faster, cheaper plan to bring Mars samples to Earth, aiming for delivery by the 2030s while cutting costs ...

To maximize chances of successfully bringing the first Martian rock and sediment samples to Earth for the benefit of humanity, NASA announced Tuesday a new approach to its Mars Sample Return Program.

Since landing on Mars in 2021, Perseverance has filled sample tubes with rocks and dirt. NASA's goal has been to retrieve at least some of them and get them to Earth in the 2030s. To do that ...

Perseverance and Curiosity (rovers) on Mars. The other is to leverage options from industry.” The first option will rely on the sky crane method, used for the entry descent and landing of the ...

NASA announced Tuesday that it's exploring two landing options to move forward ... gas and loose surface material that were collected by NASA's Perseverance rover and deliver them back to Earth.

Option one would use the same "sky crane" landing system proven with NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance Mars rovers, a smaller sample collection spacecraft, a smaller rocket to boost the samples ...

After landing on Mars, NASA's Perseverance rover sent back several pictures it captured. One of the pictures show the rover about to land on the planet, while the other shows one of the six wheels of ...

Either options has to land on Mars, collect 30 samples that have been collected since 2021 by Perseverance ... back toward Earth with either a direct landing, or parking in the space between ...