The Perseverance rover has found some intriguing samples on the red planet. Here's what they might reveal about the origins ...

One of its missions is to take rock core samples that will eventually be collected via the Mars Sample Return mission. The NASA video above shows a montage of high-resolution images from the rover ...

A core is a sample of rock in the shape of a cylinder. Taken from the side of a drilled oil or gas well, a core is then dissected into multiple core plugs, or small cylindrical samples measuring ...

Not to be outdone in the field of ambitious sample return missions, NASA and ESA’s joint plan to collect and return rock core samples from Mars has met with the approval of the independent ...