For years, the U.S. space agency's Perseverance rover has been scouring Mars and scooping up intriguing rock samples. Some of those samples have been stashed away in cylindrical tubes on the ...

Perseverance’s first task is to head for Witch Hazel Hill, a large outcrop of rock about 1,500 feet (457 meters) down the other side of the rim. The rover will be moving up and down hills over ...

These layers of rock may preserve information about Mars ... it actually won’t be that big of a deal,” said Steven Lee, ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has collected a unique rock sample named 'Silver Mountain' from Mars' Jezero Crater, marking a significant milestone. This sample is sealed in a titanium tube for return ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has stumbled upon a vein-filled rock that could be a time capsule from an ancient Martian era. It has been nicknamed ‘ Cheyava Falls ’, after a waterfall in the ...

NASA will explore two different strategies for fetching Mars rocks collected by the Perseverance rover ... new landing strategies for retrieving the rock samples before deciding on which one ...