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

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 ...

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

Even though humans have pondered the moon since the first of us looked skyward, there is still much we don't know about it.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover found a 'one-of-a-kind treasure' on the rim of Jezero Crater, a rock that could help reveal ...

"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 ...

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 rock core was sealed inside a titanium ... mineral composition and geochemical properties of the samples in order to understand how geology of Mars is different from that on Earth.

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 blackboard ...

Earth must have experienced something exceptional 10 million years ago. Our study of rock samples from the floor of the ...