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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

2024 PT5 is the second near-Earth asteroid scientists suspect was ejected from the moon's surface, the first being 469219 Kamo'oalewa, which a different team of scientists have traced to an old impact ...