NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image of its 26th collected rock sample, named “Silver Mountain,” using its onboard Sample Caching System Camera, located inside the rover’s ...

American space agency NASA publishes a short video showing iridescent clouds moving in the thin Martian atmosphere, as seen ...

TL;DR: NASA's Mars rover Perseverance has made a significant discovery, described as a "one-of-a-kind treasure," while exploring the Martian surface. NASA has confirmed its Mars rover has ...

The NASA Mars Sample Return Program plans to bring these samples to Earth (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) The rover has journeyed across more than 20 miles, according to an interactive map that ...

Any vehicle traversing the rocky terrain on Mars needs a sturdy set of wheels. NASA’s Perseverance rover, for example, sports thick aluminum ones covered in cleats to enhance its traction and ...

Such wheels have advantages on uneven terrain such as the rocky surface of Mars: they can be extremely deformed if a rover drives over a stone, for example. Once the load is removed, the wheel ...

On Feb. 18, 2021, NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars and began collecting soil, rock, and atmospheric samples in 30 sterile, cigar-sized, titanium tubes. Now, four years later, the entire ...

An illustration shows two faces of Mars a hot and arid wasteland and as a cold ... and arid surface of Mars capture by the Perseverance rover as it hunts ancient waterways for signs of now ...

It's been a while now since American space agency NASA seriously started considering bringing pieces of planet Mars to Earth for study. The idea really caught shape when the Perseverance rover ...

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 ...