The OSIRIS-REx mission, launched in 2016, has collected as much as several hundred grams of asteroid material, which could help scientists understand the earliest stages of the Solar System. The ...

Second time's the charm. Sample tube 266 contains the rover's first rock, which NASA hopes to bring back to Earth on future missions for further study. Reading time 2 minutes For the Perseverance Mars ...

This photo taken on June 25, 2024, shows the retrieval site of the return capsule of the Chang’e-6 probe in Siziwang Banner, north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Xinhua/Jin Liwang A Chinese ...

NASA is making final preparations for its Perseverance Mars rover to collect its first-ever sample of Martian rock, which future planned missions will transport to Earth. The six-wheeled geologist is ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover will cache this pristine sample and others for return to Earth, which will “change everything for Mars science.” NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has collected its first sample ...

A robot tasked with navigating the wreckage inside Fukushima Daiichi's Unit 2 reactor has successfully retrieved a small sample of melted nuclear fuel, marking a crucial step in Japan's journey toward ...

NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has relayed new images that confirm it has successfully obtained the first sample ever collected from the interior of a rock on another planet. No rover has ever has ...

NASA has tweeted images of the first sample of martian rock collected by its Perseverance rover. The team at the space agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which is overseeing the mission, posted ...

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover deposited its first titanium tube with a rock sample on the surface of the Red Planet on Wednesday, Dec. 21. The rover will set down a total of 10 tubes at the "Three ...