NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is continuing its mission to collect samples despite uncertainty about when or if those ...

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China’s Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission is set to launch this month, May 2025, en route to the asteroid Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3). The country could join the United States and Japan, whose space ...

Five months after landing on Mars, NASA's Perseverance rover is gearing up to collect its first core sample next month, mission managers said Wednesday. It will drill out a lipstick-size bit of rock ...

Scientists took samples from whale blow, identifying possible disease risks for marine mammals in northern seas.

An image from NASA's Perseverance Mars rover shows where the rover drilled into a rock called Rochette and collected two samples. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech WASHINGTON — NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover ...

NASA's Perseverance rover is getting ready to collects its first rock samples on Mars, which should eventually make their way back to Earth. Eyeing the floor of an ancient lakebed, Perseverance is ...

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After a 500 million mile journey, a piece of the asteroid Bennu is now on display at the Smithsonian. But how did it get here? Ellyn Lapointe The Smithsonian is the first institution to display a ...

NASA had aimed to collect its first sample of Martian rock using the Perseverance rover yesterday, Friday, August 6, but the sampling attempt didn’t go as planned. The rover failed to collect a rock ...

Update 12/1/20 10:30 a.m. E.T.: China National Space Administration's Chang'e-5 spacecraft has successfully landed on the lunar surface, according to reports from the state-affiliated media agency ...

Almost a year after NASA’s Perseverance rover was launched on its nearly seven-month journey to Mars, the robotic explorer is preparing to collect its first Martian sample within the next two weeks.