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NASA's Perseverance rover has spotted an oddball rock in an ancient river channel on Mars. Deputy project scientist Katie ...
NASA has found a rock on Mars that it has dubbed Skull Hill. The rock is known as a "float rock," and NASA has no idea where it came from.
NASA's Mars rover Perseverance has been exploring the surface of Mars since 2021, and throughout its travels in the Jezero Crater, it has encountered many different rocks, geological formations ...
NASA's Perseverance rover is digging deeper into Mars' geologic past as it begins grinding into rock surfaces to expose ...
NASA announces way forward on Mars rock plan NASA has announced it is moving forward with several plans to return rock samples from Mars. Space. NASA hedges its bets on costly Mars rock mission.
A moon rock signifying NASA's lunar ambitions had adorned Joe Biden's Oval Office throughout his entire presidential administration. But, since President Donald Trump took office in January, the ...
Inside will be some precious cargo: about a cup's worth of rock and dust that a NASA spacecraft collected from an asteroid called Bennu that was, at the time, more than 200 million miles away.
NASA needs help fetching rocks from Mars, and on Tuesday, agency officials announced that they have not yet quite decided how to do that. Instead, they are leaving a final decision to the incoming ...
While NASA’s mission would have rock samples from the planet brought to Earth by 2040, a Chinese mission to Mars is expected to bring back rocks in 2030, according to state media.
The rock, studied by NASA’s Perseverance rover, has been closely analyzed by scientists on Earth who say that nonmicrobial processes could also explain its features.
A NASA satellite has beamed back a picture of an interesting Martian rock formation. The picture looks like a giant bear. NASA has spotted several other amusing rock formations on Mars over the ...