A weathered sign in the Minnesota River Valley proudly proclaims: “World’s Oldest Rock.” Erected in 1975, it marks a 3.8-billion-year-old gneiss — or so scientists thought.

But billions of years ago, the surface was more temperate. Rock samples could tell us whether it supported ancient life. Across the Martian landscape, the view is breathtaking. Everything is quiet ...

QuantumScape is attempting to make solid state batteries for the EV market. The company is focused on producing samples of its product in 2025. Those samples could be the first step toward getting ...

A mission will deliver rock and soil from Mars to laboratories on Earth in the 2030s. Mars Sample Return (MSR) is led by NASA with participation from the European Space Agency (ESA). The mission ...

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The start of spring, income taxes and some of the biggest rock and metal albums is what the month of April is all about. We tracked down the biggest album of all-time released each day in April ...

Three 18-year-olds were arrested and charged with arson for the Table Rock State Park fire. The fire started on March 21st and spread to Persimmon Ridge in Greenville County the following day.

Here's more on each rover's find, as well as what's next for the Mars missions and NASA's plans to get the samples back to Earth. The Perseverance recently spotted a rock with a strange texture as ...