NASA’s Perseverance rover today completed the collection of the first sample of Martian rock, a core from Jezero Crater slightly thicker than a pencil. Mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has recorded the first-ever off-Earth sample depot for posterity. Perseverance built that depot on a patch of Martian ground called Three Forks over the course of five ...

Perseverance has stashed four out of 10 planned samples at the Three Forks sample depot on Mars. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars on February 18, 2020, and has since been spending every Martian sol exploring the western end of Jezero Crater, imaging the Martian surface, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's Perseverance rover captured this portrait of its recently completed 10-sample depot using its Mastcam-Z camera on Jan. 31, ...

Things are heating up on Mars, as the Perseverance rover begins its new science campaign. In its previous science campaign, the NASA rover explored the floor of the Jezero crater, but now it has moved ...

This image shows the rocky outcrop the Perseverance science team calls Berea after the NASA Mars rover extracted a rock core and abraded a circular patch. The image was taken by the rover's Mastcam-Z ...