NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working under the incoming Trump administration. President-elect Donald Trump ...

To that end, NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has already collected and cached a bevy of samples since it arrived on the planet in 2021. "The agency's Mars Sample Return Program has been a major ...

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 ...

“This will also prepare us to safely send the first human explorers to Mars,” Nicky Fox, who leads NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, said. The Perseverance rover is part of NASA’s Mars ...

NASA will explore two different strategies for fetching Mars rocks collected by the Perseverance rover, and there's a chance these samples contain evidence of alien life. When you purchase through ...

NASA's Perseverance rover collected samples from Mars and stored them in tubes. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS NASA’s Perseverance rover has been hard at work on Mars, collecting pieces of rock and ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has discovered possible organic molecules on Mars using the SHERLOC instrument. While these findings are intriguing, the scientific community remains divided.

NASA will investigate two new approaches to bring its Mars samples to Earth through ... about the size of a piece of chalk within a Perseverance rover drill. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASU ...

Nelson said both options involve cleaning Martian dust from the tubes on the planet surface instead of on the return vehicle, and using one of the spare arms on the Mars Perseverance rover to ...

Mars was long believed to be entirely red. However, NASA’s Perseverance rover has captured stunning images revealing blue rocks scattered across the Martian surface, challenging old perceptions.

After an independent review concluded NASA's plans to robotically collect and return rock and soil samples from Mars could cost ... to the agency's Perseverance rover, which landed on the red ...

The Mars Sample Return project intends to bring Mars samples to Earth. The Perseverance rover has been gathering rocks and soil since 2021. These samples are stored in special canisters on Mars.