Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. NASA's Perseverance mission spotted a possible large meteorite, called Phippsaksla ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has spent years combing Jezero Crater for subtle traces of ancient microbes, but one of its most arresting finds is something far more blunt: a rock that simply does not belong on Mars. Mission scientists are treating this ...

New clues found underneath Jezero Crater.

This subsurface architecture reframes the timeline of Jezero Crater’s watery past. The radar data from the rover’s 6.1-kilometer traverse makes it clear that the Margin unit physically sits underneath the rocks of the Western Delta. In geology, the stuff on the bottom is usually older.

After nearly five years on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover has traveled almost 25 miles (40 kilometers), and the mission team has been busy testing the rover’s durability and gathering new science findings on the way to a new region nicknamed “Lac de ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has detected nickel concentrations in Martian bedrock that far exceed what geologists would expect from the planet’s crust alone, and the enrichment sits alongside chemical signatures associated with ancient water and organic compounds.

More evidence that Mars was once a habitable, wet oasis not dissimilar to Earth has been found in the rocks scattered throughout the red planet. A team of researchers who analyzed the thousands of rocks say their findings, published in December in the ...

The surface of Mars carries many traces of a past watery climate, including ancient river channels, deltas, and paleolakes. Indeed, observations from space provide evidence for the existence of minerals possibly left behind as Mars’ atmosphere was gradually lost to space and its surface dried up.

NASA's Opportunity rover on Mars did not return a call from Earth yesterday (June 12) while enduring a massive dust storm that scientists have called "one of the most intense ever observed." "The Martian dust storm that has blotted out the sun above ...