US officials canceled NASA’s ambitious Mars Sample Return program, leaving potential evidence of ancient life sitting on Mars ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered a surprisingly complicated history of water in Jezero Crater. Scientists expected the ...

Scientists have found that the reality on the ground is much different from what was spotted by the orbiters.

In Jezero Crater, those rocks turned out to contain an unexpectedly rich record of water on early Mars. Researchers found ...

WASHINGTON, May 20 (Reuters) - For NASA's Perseverance Rover, life on Mars has been a marathon, not a sprint. For more than five years, the six-wheeled robotic explorer has been steadily traversing ...

After 2½ years exploring Jezero Crater's floor and river delta, the rover will ascend to an area where it will search for more discoveries that could rewrite Mars' history. NASA's Perseverance Mars ...

NASA has drafted its Mars rover Perseverance to help monitor the sun’s activity. Every day for the next two months, the rover will image the sun with its Mastcam-Z cameras, capturing crucial ...

The researchers found high amounts of silicon, and some rocks were nearly pure silica. In addition, they also identified hydrated silica, opaline silica, chalcedony and well-crystallized quartz. In ...

What does electrical activity and dust storms on Mars have in common? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated a first-time detection of ...

A car-sized NASA rover, weighing over a ton, will scale a crater wall. The space agency announced that its robotic Perseverance mission, now looking for hints of past life on Mars, is embarking on the ...

Like most other rovers sent to alien worlds, the Perseverance was built to last. Although it was technically designed to conduct its core mission – finding signs of ancient life – in one Martian year ...