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 ...
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 ...
PASADENA, Calif. — After spending about five months exploring Mars' surface, the 2020 Perseverance rover is getting ready to collect the first-ever Martian rock samples planned to return to Earth. “We ...
Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Oklahoma State University Several space missions have flown by asteroids before and gotten a peek at their compositions, but bringing a ...