NASA's plans for Mars sample return are effectively cancelled as part of a bill approved by the U.S. Congress, ending efforts ...

It looks like NASA's Mars Sample Return mission has come to a bureaucratic end. The mission was to be the crowning ...

NASA confirmed Monday that its Perseverance Mars rover succeeded in collecting its first rock sample for scientists to pore over when a future mission eventually brings it back to Earth.

Both samples, slightly wider than a pencil in diameter and about six centimeters long, are now stored in sealed tubes in the rover's interior.

The lead scientist for NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is excited about material that has been stored in the rover's sample tubes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Once acquired, that sample will live in the rover's belly and could one day return to Earth for detailed analysis. For now, NASA will have to figure out what went wrong and try again. Share on ...

Additional space in the tubes containing Martian rock could reveal insights into the gases that make up the Red Planet's atmosphere. Reading time 2 minutes The Perseverance rover has been toiling on ...