Marvels of engineering, the rover’s sample tubes must be tough enough to safely bring Red Planet samples on the long journey back to Earth in immaculate condition. The tubes carried in the belly of ...

When NASA’s Perseverance rover lands on Mars in February next year, it will begin its search for evidence of ancient life on the planet. To do this, the rover will be collecting samples of the Martian ...

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 ...

NASA is moving forward with plans to bring samples from Mars to Earth for more intense study than is possible on the red planet, and its robotic explorers are already laying the groundwork. 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 ...