The team has made good progress implementing the initial recovery steps outlined in last week’s blog. Our first success: The upper two pebbles were ejected from the bit carousel during a test. This is ...

The revised Mars Sample Return strategy does away with a "fetch rover" and its lander, relying instead on the Perseverance rover and helicopters based on Ingenuity. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — NASA’s ...

The Perseverance rover attempted to collect its first sample of Mars last week, but it seems the red planet wasn't ready to cooperate. The Perseverance rover attempted to collect its first sample of ...

Perseverance recently collected its 14th Mars rock sample but was unable to seal the tube. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's ...

The Perseverance rover isn't letting any Martian dust settle under its wheels. It's preparing to collect a core sample from another rock on Mars after its first attempt earlier this month amounted to ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has finished building its backup sample depot on the Red Planet. The car-sized Perseverance rover just stashed the last of the 10 sample tubes that comprise the depot.