In fairness to the Perseverance rover, this is exactly what it was built for. Nicknamed Percy, the machine was sent to Jezero ...

We'll likely need to get Perseverance's samples to Earth to determine if they do indeed harbor evidence of Mars life —but the ...

A planetary scientist walks through the sensors and systems that went into the recent detection of potential biosignatures.

NASA’s Perseverance rover detects potential biosignatures in Jezero Crater sample Discovery published in Nature marks closest ...

For the second time, NASA’s Perseverance rover has successfully captured visible green auroras on Mars, an astonishing ...

NASA's search for evidence of past life on Mars just produced an exciting update. On Sept. 10, 2025, a team of scientists ...

NASA’s Mars rover finds organic signals in mudstone that resemble microbial activity, sparking new debate over life on the ...

The rover carries a drill to penetrate rocks and tubes to hold the samples gathered from places judged most suitable for ...

NASA officials will unveil details about a new finding connected to a unique sample the Perseverance rover found on Mars ...

This animation depicts water disappearing over time in the Martian river valley Neretva Vallis, where NASA’s Perseverance ...

Minerals in the rock might have been produced by microbes in chemical reactions, but researchers say they’ll need to examine ...

Has NASA's Perseverance rover at long last found evidence that life did indeed once exist on Mars? Here's what we know.