Rocks that stood out as light-colored dots on the reddish-orange surface of Mars now are the latest evidence that areas of ...

Forget the dusty, rusty landscape you see today. Billions of years ago, Mars may have been soaking wet. Tropical storms might ...

These features were identified by NASA’s Perseverance rover and were determined to be kaolinite, a white, aluminum-rich clay.

NASA's Perseverance rover found rocks on Mars that on Earth usually form in tropical environments. That Mars once hosted ...

New kaolinite-rich rocks uncovered by NASA’s Perseverance rover suggest Mars once hosted warm, rainy environments that may ...

In a first for the Perseverance rover, it appears to have found an iron-nickel meteorite near the Jezero Crater. Reading time 2 minutes NASA’s Perseverance rover has seen its fair share of rocks, and ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has made another strange discovery. While investigating the Vernodden area of Jezero Crater – the crater where the rover first landed on the Red Planet in February 2021 ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has identified an exotic rock on Mars that may be an iron-nickel meteorite, according to scientists on the mission team. The oddly sculpted rock, nicknamed Phippsaksla, ...

Right now one of the most advanced planetary explorers ever built is scouring the surface of Mars. Supported by a team of hundreds of scientists back on Earth, the Perseverance rover has traveled ...

On a radiant July afternoon, a pair of scientists hung their heads off the side of a boat and peered into the brilliant blue water of a lake known for its clarity. They were watching for the exact ...

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative," wrote H. G. Wells. This principle—that survival requires ...