A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover is making history by collecting handpicked Martian samples for future return to Earth. Scientists are eager to study these specimens to unlock secrets about Mars’ ancient ...

Thanks to NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Mission, scientists for the first time in history are able to retrieve handpicked samples — ranging from rock cores the size of a piece of ...

NASA's Perseverance rover collects Martian soil samples from Jezero Crater, revealing potential signs of past life on Mars.

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The Professor and Chair of Brock University's Department of Earth Sciences was a Participating Scientist in NASA's Mars Perseverance rover mission and has been analyzing ... magmatism revealed by Mars ...

John Grotzinger, former project science for Curiosity’s mission ... ancient Mars, but it was uncertain if that water ever pooled to form lakes or shallow seas.” “The Curiosity rover ...

NASA says the textures found in the Silver Mountain sample are “unlike anything ever seen,” suggesting the rock could offer new insights into the planet’s environmental conditions – and could even ...

As a part of its grand plans for outer space domination, China is planning on sending another Chang'e probe next year. The mission this time is to search for water potentially frozen in the far side o ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has collected a sample ... and is a significant Martian discovery. The rover was launched on July 20, 2020 and landed on the Red Planet the following year, February ...