Learn why scientists are cautiously optimistic about the potential biosignatures found in the Sapphire Canyon rock sample.

We’re often the first humans to put eyes on those images. We tell Perseverance to reach out, and grind rocks, take pictures, ...

Mars is not the pristine, stratified world that people once imagined it is a graveyard of shattered worlds, their shattered remnants encapsulated deep in its mantle for over four billion years. It is ...

Despite President Trump seeking to cut NASA’s science mission budget nearly in half, the agency is set to send up its latest ...

With SpaceX and Starlink, Elon Musk controls more than half the world’s rocket launches and thousands of internet satellites.

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.

Seismic studies reveal Mars may have a solid inner core. The result deepens knowledge of its evolution and lost magnetic field. Researchers have determined that Mars shares a structural similarity ...

The question of whether there is or was life on Mars has been around for a long time, but NASA's Perseverance rover might ...

NASA scientists say a rock sample collected by the Perseverance rover in Jezero Crater may contain the strongest signs yet of ...

"The results reported here can be crucial when down-selecting which samples, if not all, are returned to Earth." ...