As NASA is set to land the Perseverance rover on Mars on Thursday, part of the rover’s mission is to take a sample of Martian soil and return it to Earth someday. While samples of the Moon have been ...

Lockheed Martin is trying to position itself as a savior for many NASA missions currently facing the chopping block at the hands of the Trump administration. The administration has already detailed ...

The Perseverance rover has been collecting Martian rock samples since 2021, but NASA is still figuring out how to bring them back to Earth. Reading time 3 minutes NASA’s Perseverance rover has been ...

In a quiet corner of an ancient riverbed on Mars, a speckled rock has pushed the search for extraterrestrial life into its most tantalizing phase yet. NASA now says the layered stone, drilled by the ...

NASA's Mars Sample Return Mission involves the Perseverance rover delivering tubes of rock samples to a robotic lander equipped with a rocket to bring back to Earth. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech ...

Additional space in the tubes containing Martian rock could reveal insights into the gases that make up the Red Planet's atmosphere. Reading time 2 minutes The Perseverance rover has been toiling on ...