NASA's Perseverance rover has uncovered pale rocks rich in kaolinite clay on the floor of Jezero Crater, a mineral that forms ...

NASA's Perseverance rover found kaolinite clay in Mars' Jezero Crater, proving ancient heavy rainfall and tropical-like ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has made another strange discovery. While investigating the Vernodden area of Jezero Crater – the crater where the rover first landed on the Red Planet in February 2021 ...

A rock on Mars spilled a surprising yellow treasure after Curiosity accidentally cracked through its unremarkable exterior.

Meteorite hunting is a side quest for Perseverance, whose primary job is to search for signs of ancient life in Jezero and collect rock cores for a possible sample return.

NASA sent the science community into a frenzy with the release of images of rocks on Mars, which led to one suggesting they ...

NASA's Perseverance robot, depicted here landing on the Martian dunes, used its cutting-edge cameras to image what could be the first evidence of life ever detected on Mars, opening the possibility ...

Scientists have created the most detailed map of Mars’ ancient river systems, pinpointing 16 major basins that may have once ...

Skylights, openings in the surface of Mars that descend down into caves, have been found on Mars, along with signatures for the presence of water ice. Possible giant "karstic" caves that formed when ...

NASA has unveiled a series of new discoveries that make the possibility of alien life elsewhere in the universe more ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Frozen in time, ancient microbes or their remains could be found in Martian ice deposits during future missions to the Red Planet. By recreating Mars-like conditions in the lab, ...