Right now on Mars, NASA's Perseverance rover is continuing its mission to study the Red Planet and collect samples to be ...

On Wednesday, Dec. 29 (sol 306) Perseverance successfully cored and extracted a sample from a Mars rock. Data downlinked after the sampling indicates that coring of the rock the science team nicknamed ...

A wheeled robot looks around with its camera-like "head" on a dusty red lake bed strewn with rocks. A new NASA video has revealed that NASA's Mars rover Perseverance has scooped what may be its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A close up of multi-colored rock against a background showing a reddish-orange dusty landscape littered with rocks. The lead ...

Attempting firsts on Mars is hard, even if you're an incredibly capable and advanced robot like the Perseverance rover. The rover attempted to make history on Friday and collect its first sample of ...

Scientists are on edge as they wait for NASA to answer two of the most consequential questions in Mars exploration. Where on the red planet will the Perseverance rover collect its final rock samples?

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 ...

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The Perseverance rover's front hazard cameras captured images of a sample being cored on March 11 from a rock named Bunsen Peak. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech While the plan to return samples gathered by ...