As NASA astronauts aim for landings in 2027, geologists find surprises in recently retrieved samples from the far ...

NASA's Perseverance collects the “Silver Mountain” sample in Jezero, revealing geological secrets and possible traces of ...

Perseverance's drives over the last few weeks have doubled back several times. Why such an unconventional route? Team ...

I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our ...

All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, according to research that provides some of the best evidence to date that such ...

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

"We can also date when igneous rocks crystallized. We can't do that while the rock is still on Mars, but those samples will be an important anchor we can use to learn about the timing of processes in ...

The samples are also providing a window into understanding what kind of chemical and biological processes were already underway as space rocks chaotically ricocheted around during the early days of ...

2024 PT5 is the second near-Earth asteroid scientists suspect was ejected from the moon's surface, the first being 469219 ...