NASA is getting excited about a special rock that its Perseverance rover has just scooped up from the surface of Mars.The ...

The rover's 26th sample, known as "Silver Mountain," has textures "unlike anything we've seen before," NASA says.

A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

American space agency NASA is looking into nickel-titanium as a potential material for future planetary rovers wheels, ...

Dozens of samples of rock and sediment collected from Mars that could be used to detect ancient microbial life could be returned to Earth as soon as 2035 and as late as 2039, depending on the course ...

The phenomenon of seeing familiar patterns in objects where none exists is called pareidolia. In terms of our evolution, it ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has collected a sample from Mars that has textures “unlike anything we’ve ever seen before.” Known ...

New Insights Into How Mars Became Uninhabitable Oct. 7, 2024 — NASA's Curiosity rover, currently exploring Gale crater on Mars, is providing new details about how the ancient Martian climate ...

The NASA Perseverance rover has been gathering rocks and dust since it landed on Mars in February 2021 ... the planet’s geological history and the evolution of climate on this barren planet ...

The northern plains of Mars, marked by thousands of mounds and hills, hold significant evidence of the planet's watery past.

The NASA Mars Sample Return Program plans to bring these samples to Earth (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) The rover has journeyed across more than 20 miles, according to an interactive map that ...