When a Mars rover accidentally crushed a small rock and exposed a flash of vivid yellow inside, it turned a routine drive into one of the most intriguing discoveries of the mission. The fractured ...

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The cone-shaped object was photographed by a Mars rover in August 2022 ...

Sometimes, the greatest scientific discoveries happen by complete accident, and an inadvertent move by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover last year may have uncovered one of the red planet's most important ...

It looked to be uniformly bland, which is why scientists chose it as the first rock to be examined up close last year by the Mars rover Curiosity: a run-of-the-mill volcanic rock, something to test ...