NASA's Perseverance rover has collected a unique rock sample named 'Silver Mountain' from Mars' Jezero Crater, marking a significant milestone. This sample is sealed in a titanium tube for return ...

“This will also prepare us to safely send the first human explorers to Mars,” Nicky Fox, who leads NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, said. The Perseverance rover is part of NASA’s Mars ...

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

Any vehicle traversing the rocky terrain on Mars needs a sturdy set of wheels. NASA’s Perseverance rover, for example, sports thick aluminum ones covered in cleats to enhance its traction and ...

Scientists may have figured out how Mars hung onto its surface liquid water in its ancient history via alternating periods of ...

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 ...

The study of ancient lava formations on Mars is the most complete to date from a series of observations conducted on the ...

To that end, NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has already collected and cached a bevy of samples since it arrived on the planet in 2021. "The agency's Mars Sample Return Program has been a major ...

Mars haunts us as a vision of a planet gone wrong. It was once warm and wet, with rivers flowing across its surface and ...

NASA will explore two different strategies for fetching Mars rocks collected by the Perseverance rover, and there's a chance these samples contain evidence of alien life. When you purchase through ...

Communication with the helicopter relies on the Perseverance rover, which is moving farther away,... A new study highlights how cosmic radiation is destroying signs of ancient life on Mars.