NASA’s other rover, Perseverance, landed in the Jezero Crater on February 18, 2021, to search for signs of ancient life and collect rock samples for a future return to Earth.

Scientists traced microbial life in Finland’s 78M-year-old Lappajärvi crater to just 4–5 million years after impact, using isotopic signatures of sulfate- and methane-cycling bacteria.

In Jezero Crater’s Bright Angel formation, Perseverance has found rocks rich in organic molecules and minerals linked to ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has just added a curious new piece to the ever-evolving puzzle of Mars. While climbing the lower ...

Fresh analysis of Perseverance rover data reveals Jezero Crater experienced repeated episodes of water activity, ...

New research shows microbes colonized a Finnish impact crater 73.6 million years ago, lasting over 10 million years.

NASA has just shared one of its most impressive Mars panoramas to date. Captured by its trusty Curiosity rover, the panorama (below) of the Martian landscape comprises 44 images taken by the rover’s ...

A lookout point in the foothills of Mount Sharp, a 3-mile-high mountain, allowed the rover to see all the way across Gale ...

A new study has revealed that life not only survives catastrophic meteorite impacts but can actually thrive in the craters ...

After a catastrophic asteroid impact 78 million years ago, life didn't just survive—it thrived, at least according to new ...

Roger Wiens has been a Mars explorer since he was 11 years old. He now leads the SuperCam instrument team on NASA’s Mars ...

Scientists have discovered that microbial life colonised the Lappajarvi impact crater in Finland shortly after a massive ...