A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get them back to Earth. For years, the U.S. space agency's Perseverance ...

My dad, aunts and uncles probably had fun collecting rocks on that same trail too. Our rock collection was gone a long time ago. I think Mom saw the rocks as clutter and decided to dump them into ...

One of Blue Ghost’s payloads, PlanetVac, demonstrated a technology to simplify the collecting of soil and rocks. It fired a blast of gas into the ground, which propelled material into a container.

Their goal was to collect more early Earth material for their own research and the Smithsonian’s National Rock and Ore Collection, where the samples would be available to scientists from around ...

Rockhounding, a cooler name for rock collecting, is a favorite pastime for visitors and residents who live in northern Michigan. Here's what to know about the agate gemstone and where you can find ...

For many, collecting rocks is a treasure hunt, whether finding them oneself straight from the ground or river bed, or sourcing a rare specimen mined in a distant land.

After landing in February 2021 in the Jezero Crater, the robot, controlled remotely from Earth, has since spent nearly four years searching for and collecting more than two dozen rock samples ...

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get them back to Earth.. For years, the U.S. space agency's Perseverance ...