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The discovery is just the latest to come from the asteroid sample, which dates back to the dawn of the solar system.

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Good afternoon and welcome. I am pleased to be here today with members of the authoring committee to publicly release this new National Research Council report, The Quarantine and Certification of ...

The Perseverance rover has outdone itself this week, collecting not one but two samples of Martian rock for analysis. Now, NASA scientists have revealed what these samples can tell us about the ...

An image from NASA's Perseverance Mars rover shows where the rover drilled into a rock called Rochette and collected two samples. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech WASHINGTON — NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover ...

NASA announced Friday that it will award contracts to seven companies, including SpaceX and Blue Origin, to study how to transport rock samples from Mars more cheaply back to Earth. The space agency ...