A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return from Mars. The University of Nevada, Las Vegas astrobiologist leading the ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover is making history by collecting handpicked Martian samples for future return to Earth. Scientists are eager to study these specimens to unlock secrets about Mars’ ancient ...

Thanks to NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Mission, scientists for the first time in history are able to retrieve handpicked samples — ranging from rock cores the size of a piece of ...

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discovered ripples formed by water flowing across the surface of ancient Mars, but it was uncertain if that water ever pooled to form lakes or shallow seas.” “The Curiosity rover discovered ...

In a nutshell NASA’s Perseverance rover has collected the first carefully selected Martian soil samples from Jezero Crater, ranging from rock cores to tiny dust particles. These samples could reveal ...

In the meantime, the Perseverance rover is still traversing Mars and collecting samples ... Constraints on intracrustal magmatism revealed by Mars 2020 PIXL, Science Advances (2025). DOI: ...

China's first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen 2, is scheduled to be launched in the coming months from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province, according to the China National ...

Fahrenheit set zero at the lowest temperature he could get a water and salt mixture to reach. The second fixed point in the ...

Indian space programme's evolution, challenges, and future prospects, including ISRO's role, commercialisation, and private ...

The Space Coast set a new record in 2024 with 93 launches from all providers, building off the 72 orbital missions flown in 2023. With SpaceX’s continued pace, more launches from United Launch ...

In the coming years, an unprecedented number of people will leave planet Earth—but it’s becoming increasingly clear that deep ...