Apollo 14 mission sample 14321, nicknamed "Big Bertha," exhibits a mineral composition (including quartz and granite-like structures) atypical of lunar rocks but common to Earth. Zircon analysis ...

The Perseverance rover has captured its first two slices of Mars. NASA’s latest Mars rover drilled into a flat rock nicknamed Rochette on September 1 and filled a roughly finger-sized tube with stone.

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Rocks ...

The Perseverance Mars rover, making its first attempt to collect a rock sample from the floor of Jezero Crater, drilled into a targeted rock as planned Friday, but photos and telemetry indicate ...

Perseverance is picking up the sampling pace. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's Perseverance rover has now collected a dozen ...

A rock sample collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover may contain evidence of ancient microbial life, preserved for billions of years on the Red Planet. The potential “biosignature” is not direct ...