NASA has finally opened one of the last remaining samples from the Apollo 17 mission, the last time humanity set foot on the Moon back in 1972. On Wednesday, the agency announced that sample 73001 was ...

NASA is celebrating confirmation via data it received from its Perseverance Rover that indicates it has completed the collection of its first rock core sample on Mars. Data was received from the rover ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. A dainty ...

A satisfying, audible "pop" marked a successful piercing of the sealed Apollo 17 sample container using the ESA designed and built piercing tool. The tool forms part of a gas sampling system with a ...

NASA has released an image showing that the space agency's Perseverance Mars rover has successfully retrieved its first rock drill sample for return to Earth. Taken by the Mastcam-Z camera on ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists using an ocean drilling vessel have dug the deepest hole ever in rock from Earth's mantle - penetrating 4,160 feet (1,268 meters) below the Atlantic seabed - and ...

An international team of scientists have drilled nearly two miles down into the Antarctic bedrock, extracting an ice core sample that’s estimated to be at least 1.2 million years old, they announced ...