A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

Although the beans in the photo look like beans, the probe actually captured images of large frozen dunes on Mars. NASA has ...

For more than a year, scientists and aerospace engineers have been awaiting NASA’s decision on how to rescue the troubled Mars Sample Return mission, which aspires to bring Martian rocks and ...

Martian sand primarily comprises basalt, a material formed from crushed volcanic rock. According to NASA ... Ice frost halts ...

The Perseverance rover is building up a stash of rocks on Mars that could contain the first-ever signs of alien life, but NASA is scrambling to figure out how it will bring them back to Earth for ...

But those initial rocks it encountered remain of high interest, Dr. Schmidt said, because they are from a time when little is known about what was happening on Mars, geologically speaking.

The Mars Sample Return effort was billions of dollars over budget and not expected to return to Earth with its samples until 2040. By Kenneth Chang Last year, Kenneth Chang wrote about a Martian ...

For years, the U.S. space agency's Perseverance rover has been scouring Mars and scooping up intriguing rock samples. Some of those samples have been stashed away in cylindrical tubes on the ...