Serpentine is a mineral that forms through interactions ... While Perseverance excels at identifying interesting rocks, ...

"On Earth, these minerals form where there is intense ... the team members realized they had an interesting discovery. "These rocks are very different from anything we've seen on Mars before ...

Some minerals in rocks and organic matter (e.g., wood, bones, and shells) can contain radioactive isotopes. The abundances of parent and daughter isotopes in a sample can be measured and used to ...

That changed last week. The Chang’e 5 mission launched in China on November 23rd will deliver moon rocks to earth, and as this is being written it has already entered Lunar orbit and separated ...