One of the best parts about sending rovers like Perseverance to other planets, is sometimes they send back some absolutely ...

Nasa’s Perseverance rover has uncovered new evidence of chemical activity on Mars that could suggest the planet was once habitable. Samples of mudstones from the Jezero crater – an ancient basin long ...

This graphic depicts Perseverance's entry into "Séítah" from both an orbital and subsurface perspective. The lower image is a subsurface "radargram" from the rover's RIMFAX instrument; the red lines ...

Scientists got a surprise when NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover began examining rocks on the floor of Jezero Crater in spring of 2021: Because the crater held a lake billions of years ago, they had ...

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its Right Mastcam-Z camera. Mastcam-Z is a pair of cameras located high on the rover's mast. (CREDIT: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU) Jezero Crater has ...

NASA’s discovery of potential evidence of ancient life on Mars means “our galaxy could be teeming with life,” says a ...

Billions of years ago, Mars’ Jezero Crater held a lake fed by rivers that could have carried minerals and maybe even organic matter. On Earth, places like that are teeming with microbial life. NOVA is ...

A group of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has helped discover a new mineral on Mars with implications ...

Jezero Crater has become one of the most exciting places in the search for signs of past life on Mars. Since landing in 2021, NASA’s Perseverance rover has been exploring the crater’s ancient river ...