NASA's Perseverance rover has been actively gathering precious material since it touched down on the Red Planet in 2021. Recently, the machine deposited a sample tube in what the agency calls the ...

The new, innovative 2-mL tubes with external thread are the first tubes of their kind, enabling researchers to store high-volume samples in a space-efficient 96-well format. The tube provides an ...

The director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory wants to be a Jedi. Laurie Leshlin, peering at footage of a lightsaber-shaped sample tube dropped yesterday on Mars (Dec. 21) by NASA's Perseverance ...

NASA's Perseverance rover keeps dropping early Christmas presents on Mars. On Friday (Dec. 23), NASA announced that Perseverance successfully dropped its second rock sample tube on the Martian surface ...

Even the director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory thinks the Perseverance rover's rock sample tube looks like it belongs in a galaxy far, far away. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets ...

Pew Research Center designed this study to assess the current state of online survey sampling methods – both probability-based and opt-in – and determine their accuracy on general population estimates ...

NASA scientists recently opened a sample tube of rock and soil collected on the moon during Apollo 17. The tube remained unopened for nearly 47 years, and it is the first time NASA scientists have ...