NASA’s Perseverance rover has spent its two years on Mars imaging the planet’s surface and collecting rock samples that will, should all go well, be brought to Earth in the early 2030s. The rover ...

On Wednesday, Dec. 29 (sol 306) Perseverance successfully cored and extracted a sample from a Mars rock. Data downlinked after the sampling indicates that coring of the rock the science team nicknamed ...

Among the dozens of NASA missions active at any given time is Perseverance, the rover currently roaming Mars collecting whatever Martian rocks it can. In the two years its been on the planet, ...

On February 18, 2021, Mars 2020 landed at Jezero Crater on Mars. The mission contained a rover named Perseverance and a helicopter named Ingenuity. The main objectives of the Perseverance rover are to ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover today completed the collection of the first sample of Martian rock, a core from Jezero Crater slightly thicker than a pencil. Mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...

A wheeled robot looks around with its camera-like "head" on a dusty red lake bed strewn with rocks. A new NASA video has revealed that NASA's Mars rover Perseverance has scooped what may be its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A close up of multi-colored rock against a background showing a reddish-orange dusty landscape littered with rocks. The lead ...

Attempting firsts on Mars is hard, even if you're an incredibly capable and advanced robot like the Perseverance rover. The rover attempted to make history on Friday and collect its first sample of ...

Thanks to Mars rover missions like NASA's Perseverance and Curiosity, we're learning more about the Red Planet than ever before. One of the biggest questions that researchers have about Mars, which ...

Editor at Large For nearly half a century, NASA has been talking an awfully good game about its much-heralded Mars Sample Return (MSR) project. As long ago as 1978, the space agency requested funding ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has been busy creating what the space agency recently said was “humanity’s first sample depot on another planet.” The depot, which is essentially a flat patch of land, ...

The rover's advanced sample collection mechanism has become obstructed by some debris, and the team doesn't want to continue until it can get the rocks out of the way and ensure there is no damage to ...