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

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

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

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

During a press conference today, NASA presented findings from the initial analysis of a Martian geological sample, touting it ...

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

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

NASA’s famous Mars rover Perseverance, which landed on the red planet back in 2021, has been quiet for a long time—but now ...

NASA's Mars rover Perseverance has uncovered rocks in a dry river channel that may hold potential signs of ancient ...

NASA rover Perseverance collected evidence being considered by agency officials as 'the closest we have ever come to ...

A new study co-authored by Texas A&M University geologist Dr. Michael Tice has revealed potential chemical signatures of ...

One of the studies, led by Dr. Aleksandra Sokołowska of Brown University and Imperial College London, has identified 258 ...