NASA is blaming unusually soft rock for last week’s sampling fiasco on Mars. The Perseverance rover

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.— NASA’s newest Mars rover has successfully collected its first rock sample for

NASA is making final preparations for its Perseverance Mars rover to collect its first-ever sample

planet’s Jezero Crater to extract a finger-sized sample from slabs of flat rocks.... Plans call for

The rover drove a half-mile to a better sampling spot to try again.... Team members analyzed data

The buyer, who has requested to remain anonymous, purchased the plaque as a wood sample to use in

True to its name, Perseverance drilled into the planet and extracted a rock core a month after its

first rock sample on Mars." I've got it!... " the space agency tweeted in the early hours of Monday

TOKYO: Asteroid dust collected by a Japanese space probe contains organic material that shows some of the building blocks of life on Earth may have been formed in space, scientists said on Friday. Pristine material from the asteroid Ryugu was brought back to Earth in 2020 after a six-year mission to the celestial body around 300 million kilometres away. But scientists are only just beginning to discover its secrets in the first studies on small portions of the 5.4 grams of dust and dark, tiny ro

back rocks from the side of the moon facing away from Earth. The missions demonstrated China's