A fungus aboard the ISS extracted palladium from meteorite rock, hinting at future space mining powered by living microbes.
NASA’s Curiosity rover is attempting one of the rarest kinds of experiments ever tried on Mars, a painstaking chemical test that uses a limited supply of liquid reagents to hunt for traces of complex ...
The Mars Science Laboratory, Curiosity, has used one of its main instruments for the first time. The chemistry and camera instrument, or ChemCam, vaporised part of a "fist-sized" rock near its landing ...