Has NASA's Perseverance rover at long last found evidence that life did indeed once exist on Mars? Well, after more than four years of scouring the Red Planet's rocky surface, the intrepid rover has ...

Mars is quietly turning into a long-distance proving ground, and the vehicle leading the pack is not a dune buggy but a rolling science lab. NASA’s Perseverance rover has already pushed past its own ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on the red planet on Thursday, and immediately got to work, beaming images from the surface directly back to Earth. After a seven-month flight, the rover will begin ...

When a Mars rover accidentally crushed a small rock and exposed a flash of vivid yellow inside, it turned a routine drive into one of the most intriguing discoveries of the mission. The fractured ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Since February 2021, NASA's Perseverance rover has been exploring a ...

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 ...

The rover’s science instruments found that the formation’s sedimentary rocks are composed of clay and silt, which, on Earth, are excellent preservers of past microbial life. The findings were made ...