NASA is getting excited about a special rock that its Perseverance rover has just scooped up from the surface of Mars.

And scientists finally got their hands on a perfectly-preserved asteroid sample. Space exploration, however, is hard, and multiple moments reminded us of that — like a broken Mars copter and ...

delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off after another space rock. It remains the biggest cosmic haul from beyond the moon. The two previous asteroid sample ...