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The $2.4 billion Perseverance rover is on a mission to search for signs of past life and collect Martian rock samples for return to Earth.
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How NASA will bring Martian rocks back to Earth for first time ever
Never before have humans brought a piece of another planet back to Earth. "If it sounds complicated, it is," a top NASA scientist said. "If it sounds extreme, it most certainly is."
Everything to know about NASA's Mars Ingenuity helicopter
NASA's Perseverance rover is landing on Mars with some precious cargo: a 4-pound helicopter on a "high risk, high reward" mission.
The Mars Perseverance rover landing will be the most difficult ever
Perseverance will have to land on Mars without the help of mission control — NASA scientists call it the "seven minutes of terror."
Mars landing site offers best chance to find signs of past life
NASA's Perseverance rover will explore Jezero Crater, which once held a 28-mile-wide lake.
SpaceX launches 60 Starlink satellites but booster landing fails
SpaceX has now launched 1,145 Starlink internet relay satellites with launches of thousands more anticipated.
NASA's Perseverance rover closes in on Mars
Perseverance is landing on Mars with a mission to search for signs of ancient life.
Russian cargo ship heads for space station, loaded with supplies
The Russian Progress cargo ship blasted off from Kazakhstan atop a Soyuz booster carrying 2-and-a-half tons of supplies and equipment.
Astronomers discover trio of young planets orbiting a teenage sun
The system is located in a newly-discovered Pisces-Eridanus stellar stream, which is less than 3% the age of our solar system.
Astronomers confirm orbit of most distant object in our solar system
Farfarout is almost four times farther from the sun than Pluto.
China's Mars probe enters orbit around red planet
China's orbiter will send a small rover to the surface of Mars in May.
UAE's Hope spacecraft is first of 3 to reach Mars this month
UAE's Hope will be followed by China's Tianwen-1 and NASA's Perseverance rover.
SpaceX launches 60 more Starlink internet satellites
One down, one to go: SpaceX launches the first of two back-to-back Falcon 9 flights.
SpaceX Starship prototype explodes on landing in test flight
It was the second Starship landing mishap in a row as SpaceX continues the booster's rapid-fire development.
Astronomers find origins of "galactic cannibalism" in dark matter halo
"One galaxy may have eaten one of its slightly smaller, more primitive neighbors, that then spilled all its stars into the outskirts," an MIT professor said.
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