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British space technology will help pioneer new approaches to energy, communications and resources, thanks to new projects from the UK Space Agency

NASA awarded Lockheed Martin a contract to build a rocket to return Mars rock samples currently being collected by the agency’s Perseverance rover.

NASA has awarded Lockheed Martin a contract to build a lightweight rocket designed to carry samples from the surface of Mars back Earth.

Lockheed Martin will build the Mars Ascent Vehicle, a small rocket that will launch pristine Red Planet samples back toward Earth a decade or so from now.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft was awarded the John L. "Jack" Swigert, Jr. Award for Space Exploration by the Space Foundation. The REXIS instrument onboard was developed by MIT and Harvard students to study the asteroid Bennu’s chemical composition.

NASA announced exciting new results from the first 10 months of Perseverance exploring an ancient lakebed on Mars, from magma

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The rover collected its latest sample from a rock named “Robine” and has commenced its processing to analyse the chemical remnants of the core.

Scientists discover the Mars bedrock the Perseverance Rover has been driving on likely formed from red-hot magma, as well as discovering rocks which have interacted with water.