NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took this selfie on July 23, 2024, the 1,218th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. To the left of the rover near the center of the image is the arrowhead-shaped rock ...

NASA believes it knows why Perserverance’s first Mars rock sample went missing. As Salon previously reported, earlier this month scientists attempted to collect samples from the Red Planet and deposit ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has completed an important part of its historic mission on Mars, by collecting a sample of rock from beneath the surface of the Red Planet in a first for humans. The sample, ...

NASA has announced plans to create a lab specifically designed to study the Martian rock samples that Perseverance has been gathering from the Jezero Crater on the Red Planet. We have known for ...

On the surface of Mars, a rover has filled over two dozen airtight titanium tubes with pristine rock samples, each a little thicker than a pencil. Some tubes have been stashed on the Red Planet's ...

NASA Perseverance rover has just marked history by successfully collecting a peculiar rock sample from the Jezero Crater of ...

NASA says it’s confident its Perseverance rover has successfully collected its first sample of Martian rock. The achievement marks a significant breakthrough for the mission team after an initial ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover will cache this pristine sample and others for return to Earth, which will “change everything for Mars science.” NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has collected its first sample ...

Scientists believe intriguing leopard spots on a rock sampled by the Perseverance rover on Mars last year may have potentially been made by ancient life, NASA announced Wednesday. The team has also ...

Only two days after successfully acquiring its first Mars rock sample for storage in a titanium tube, NASA collected and stored a second sample — and it is already scouting for the perfect place from ...