China’s Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission is set to launch this month, May 2025, en route to the asteroid Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3). The country could join the United States and Japan, whose space ...

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 ...

The spacecraft kissed the surface of astroid Bennu a little after 6 p.m. ET. A NASA spacecraft briefly touched the surface of an asteroid, attempted to collect a sample of extraterrestrial rocks and ...

On Tuesday, October 20, NASA will attempt to collect materials from an asteroid for the first time ever. The space agency aims to collect the rocky materials from asteroid, Bennu, using its OSIRIS-REx ...

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 ...

Video above from earlier this year: NASA shows Perseverance's first drive on MarsAlmost a year after NASA's Perseverance rover was launched on its nearly seven-month journey to Mars, the robotic ...

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 ...

Scientists took samples from whale blow, identifying possible disease risks for marine mammals in northern seas.

Almost a year after NASA’s Perseverance rover was launched on its nearly seven-month journey to Mars, the robotic explorer is preparing to collect its first Martian sample within the next two weeks.