True to its name, Perseverance drilled into the planet and extracted a rock core a month after its first failed attempt. Data and images beamed back to Earth from Mars show the aftermath of the ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has collected its first rock sample on Mars, marking an historic first step in a mission to return the sample to Earth later this decade. Initially scientists couldn't ...

Unusually soft, powdery rock on the surface of Mars was to blame for a sampling fiasco that saw Perseverance fail to collect its first specimen, according to NASA. Soon after starting its science ...

NASA is blaming unusually soft rock for last week’s sampling fiasco on Mars. The Perseverance rover came up empty after attempting to collect its first core sample on the red planet for eventual ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captured this view of a location nicknamed “Mont Musard” on Sept. 8, 2025. Made up of three images, the panorama also captures another region, “Lac de Charmes,” where ...

The coring system appeared to work perfectly... Engineers are trying to work out what went wrong when the US space agency's Perseverance rover tried to gather its first rock core on Mars. The robot's ...

Fifty years ago, the last human set foot on the Moon. The Apollo 17 mission brought back a wealth of lunar samples, but some were left untouched until now. The UK’s National History Museum researchers ...

The drill sample from the slab known as Rochette will be sent back to Earth for analysis The US space agency has confirmed that its Perseverance rover has retrieved its first rock sample on Mars.

Data showed the Mars rover drilled to the intended depth but the sample tube came up empty. NASA is blaming unusually soft rock for last week’s sampling fiasco on Mars. The Perseverance rover came up ...

Engineers are trying to work out what went wrong when the US space agency's Perseverance rover tried to gather its first rock core on Mars. The robot's mechanisms seemed to work perfectly but when a ...

The US space agency has confirmed that its Perseverance rover has retrieved its first rock sample on Mars. There were an anxious few days after the robot drilled into a thick slab dubbed "Rochette" ...