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

The NASA Perseverance rover has been gathering rocks and dust since it landed on Mars in February 2021. Scientists believe those samples — collected from Jezero Crater, the former site of an ...

“Pursuing two potential paths forward will ensure that NASA is able to bring these samples back from Mars ... path on NASA’s website. The samples, collected in titanium tubes after the rover ...

The return of the samples also will help NASA's search for signs of ancient life." But the mission to return those Perseverance Mars rover samples to Earth is at a crossroads. One plan to return ...

Aerojet Rocketdyne went a step farther, urging NASA to reduce the mass of the Mars rocket to reuse its sky crane. A Mars rover descends ... the final decision on the path forward for the sample ...

Mars represents one of the most promising locations in our solar system to search for signs of past or present life ...

The adverse environment is challenging for humans to land on and explore. This is where a Mars rover comes in handy. The Zhurong Mars rover is named after the mythological fire deity Zhurong and ...

NASA shares images of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) near the sun and stunning photos from Jupiter and Mars missions.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover ... discovery. The rover was launched on July 20, 2020 and landed on the Red Planet the following year, February 18, 2021. Its aim is to search for signs of ancient ...