In June, 2024, Perseverance, a NASA rover sent to collect samples on the surface of Mars, came upon a cluster of rocks in what is thought to be a former riverbed. Most of the rocks were identified as ...

Recent findings from NASA’s Perseverance rover suggest that Mars may have once harbored life. The rover’s exploration of the Jezero Crater has yielded rock samples with intriguing patterns consistent ...

A mudstone sample from Jezero Crater shows textures and minerals that on Earth often form through microbial activity. Scientists caution that nonbiological processes could also explain the features, ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took this selfie on July 23, 2024. To the left of the rover near the center of the image is the arrowhead-shaped rock nicknamed "Cheyava Falls." Preliminary inspection ...

For decades, the search for life on Mars has been a story of hints and maybes, of chemical curiosities that stopped just short of a clear biological signal. That changed this year when a single, ...

The recent announcement that scientists have spotted what they believe to be evidence suggesting ancient life on Mars seemed like the latest in an endless cycle of tantalizing hints followed by pleas ...

Recently, NASA revealed exciting details of new findings from Mars. Scientists have discovered tiny patterns of unusual minerals in the clay-rich rocks on the edge of Jezero Crater—an ancient lake ...