Penn gymnastics held its first home meet of the season at The Palestra on Jan. 17 against Yale, Ursinus, and Towson, and the ...

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

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

The Mastcam-Z camera on NASA’s Perseverance rover captured the Martian moon Phobos as it eclipsed the sun. Credit: ...

Nicky Fox, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, explained, “We are exploring two new landing options. One is to leverage technology used for the Perseverance and ...

The agency will explore two different landing strategies simultaneously during the program ... This photomontage shows tubes containing samples from Mars, as collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars ...

The Perseverance rover is building up a stash ... the cost ballooned to $11 billion and the samples wouldn't be landing on Earth until 2040. So Nelson scrapped that plan in April and called ...

The more traditional alternative would use the same landing method that lowered NASA’s Perseverance and Curiosity rovers onto the Martian surface — a rocket-steered platform known as a sky crane.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working ...

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 ...

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 ...