Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A photomontage shows tubes containing samples from Mars, as collected by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. The agency's Mars Sample ...

For nearly four years, NASA’s Perseverance rover has journeyed across an unexplored patch of land on Mars—once home to an ancient river delta—and collected a slew of rock samples sealed inside ...

A mission will deliver rock and soil from Mars to laboratories on Earth in the 2030s. Mars Sample Return (MSR) is led by NASA with participation from the European Space Agency (ESA). The mission will ...

NASA’s interim administrator, Sean Duffy, was fired up on Wednesday when he joined a teleconference to talk about new scientific findings that concerned the potential for life to have once existed on ...

These AI images of a “Cybertruck on Mars” were created by the Stable Diffusion image generation program, running on Tesla’s Dojo supercomputer in 2022. (Tesla ...

NASA’s latest Mars finding is notable less as a final answer than as a reminder of how the agency designed Perseverance to work: identify the most promising geology on the surface, test it with a ...

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 ...

Rocket Lab wants NASA to open up the Mars Sample Return program to commercial competition, arguing it can carry out the mission faster and cheaper than the agency's alternatives. Credit: Rocket Lab ...

Anyone hoping for a clear path forward this year for NASA's imperiled Mars Sample Return mission will have to wait a little longer. The agency has settled on two potential strategies for the first ...