It may look like a lightsaber sitting on the surface of Mars, but this titanium tube is actually a sample canister dropped off by the Perseverance rover. This could eventually be the first pristine ...

NASA's Perseverance rover keeps dropping early Christmas presents on Mars. On Friday (Dec. 23), NASA announced that Perseverance successfully dropped its second rock sample tube on the Martian surface ...

"My second sample drop is looking good!" NASA's Perseverance rover team wrote in a Twitter update(opens in new tab) Friday. "This tube holds a piece of sedimentary ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has been actively gathering precious material since it touched down on the Red Planet in 2021. Recently, the machine deposited a sample tube in what the agency calls the ...

One of the most ambitious campaigns to return the samples from Mars safely back to Earth for in-depth analysis is already underway. Over the next few weeks, the Perseverance rover will start building ...

A future mission will pick up these rock cores and bring them to Earth, where scientists will search them for signs of ancient life. Reading time 2 minutes For nearly two years (has it been that long ...