The Perseverance rover is bristling with scientific instruments and cameras, but it can only do so much on the surface of Mars. Thus, NASA plans to transport the rover's samples back to Earth in the ...

US officials canceled NASA’s ambitious Mars Sample Return program, leaving potential evidence of ancient life sitting on Mars ...

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 ...

What is the origin of the 'Comet Geyser' rock? Scientists are working to solve this Martian mystery. This video explores the ...

NASA Perseverance rover has just marked history by successfully collecting a peculiar rock sample from the Jezero Crater of ...

NASA's Perseverance rover is almost ready to set off on its journey to Mars, but there are a few pieces of equipment still being integrated with the robot. For example, it won't get its nuclear ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the road to Krokodillen: One of the navigation cameras on NASA's Perseverance captured the rover's tracks coming from an area ...

NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image of its 26th collected rock sample, named “Silver Mountain,” using its onboard Sample Caching System Camera, located inside the rover’s underbelly.

Perseverance took a selfie after filling a sample tube with a rock core from the arrowhead-shaped rock nicknamed Cheyava Falls. The small, dark hole in the rock is where the core sample was drilled.

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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is exploring a new region of interest the team is calling "Krokodillen" that may contain some of the oldest rocks on Mars. The area has been on the Perseverance science ...