Five months after landing on Mars, NASA's Perseverance rover is gearing up to collect its first core sample next month, mission managers said Wednesday. It will drill out a lipstick-size bit of rock ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Several space missions have flown by asteroids before and gotten a peek at their compositions, but bringing a sample back to Earth ...

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NASA had aimed to collect its first sample of Martian rock using the Perseverance rover yesterday, Friday, August 6, but the sampling attempt didn’t go as planned. The rover failed to collect a rock ...

NASA's Perseverance rover is getting ready to collects its first rock samples on Mars, which should eventually make their way back to Earth. Eyeing the floor of an ancient lakebed, Perseverance is ...

Orbiting spacecraft and rovers deployed on Mars over the past twenty years have found strong evidence for conditions billions of years ago that were very different from the dry, cold environment of ...

NASA made history on Tuesday afternoon as its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully “tagged” the asteroid 101955 Bennu, and in doing so collected a small sample of regolith from the passing celestial ...

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Playing a cosmic game of tag, a NASA spacecraft extended an 11-foot-long robot arm and descended to the surface of a small, rubble-strewn asteroid called Bennu Tuesday, briefly pressing a collection ...