NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has just collected its 26th sample, named "Silver Mountain", and NASA has confirmed not only ...

NASA is getting excited about a special rock that its Perseverance rover has just scooped up from the surface of Mars.

The rover's 26th sample, known as "Silver Mountain," has textures "unlike anything we've seen before," NASA says.

The Perseverance rover is building up a stash of rocks on Mars that could contain the first-ever signs of alien life, but NASA is scrambling to figure out how it will bring them back to Earth for ...

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After an independent review concluded NASA's plans to robotically collect and return rock and soil samples from Mars could cost up to $11 billion, NASA "pulled the plug" and is focusing on two ...

NASA has two options for bringing rock and sediment samples from Mars to Earth, but will let the incoming Trump administration decide which course to take. An independent review board found that ...

NASA will investigate two new approaches to bring its Mars samples to Earth through a mission proposal that is less expensive and technically complicated. Either change in the mission's design ...

To maximize chances of successfully bringing the first Martian rock and sediment samples to Earth for the benefit of humanity, NASA announced Tuesday a new approach to its Mars Sample Return Program.