A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

NASA's Perseverance rover is scaling the western rim of Mars' Jezero Crater, facing its toughest challenge yet. The rover's ...

Captured on May 2, 2022 is this rock on Mars driven over by the Perseverance rover, which created “accidental zen art” according to NASA. The rover travels a few hundred meters per day.

as collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. The agency’s Mars Sample Return Program plans to bring these samples back to study them in state-of-the-art facilities on Earth. NASA/JPL ...

NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the ...

No prior mission to Mars has been better equipped to answer the essential question: “Are we alone?” But no matter how capable Perseverance is, there’s a limit to how much science can be ...

The milestone came at the same time as another NASA vehicle, its small Ingenuity helicopter that hitched a ride to Mars with Perseverance, was potentially given a new purpose following its final ...

Meanwhile, the Perseverance rover that collected ... what studying rocks up close with state-of-the-art equipment could unveil. And while Mars rocks do occasionally come to Earth as meteorites ...