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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! NASA’s Perseverance rover may have stumbled on a visitor from outer space – a strange, shiny rock on Mars that scientists think could be a meteorite forged in the heart of an ancient asteroid. According to a new blog post on the rover’s mission page, the rock – nicknamed “Phippsaksla” – stood …

China has launched a space probe that will travel to an asteroid near Mars to collect samples and find potential “groundbreaking” results. The Tianwen-2 probe launched Thursday from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan Province aboard the workhorse Long March 3-B rocket, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA). The target of the Tianwen-2 will be …