We'll likely need to get Perseverance's samples to Earth to determine if they do indeed harbor evidence of Mars life —but the prospects of such a mission are cloudy at best.

Scientists studying Mars rocks have found a metal-rich mineral. This raised news question about whether the red planet once ...

The surface of Mars carries many traces of a past watery climate, including ancient river channels, deltas, and paleolakes.

The Mars Perseverance rover has been investigating the Jezero Crater and came across something that is not native to Mars at all. It is a meteorite that collided with the red planet. Though various ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Electrical discharges turn out to be quite common inside Martian dust devils. (Credit: NASA/JPL) New evidence from NASA, published ...

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 ...

In December, NASA took another small, incremental step towards autonomous surface rovers. In a demonstration, the Perseverance team used AI to generate the rover’s waypoints. Perseverance used the AI ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (NewsNation) — NASA announced on Wednesday its Perseverance rover will keep exploring on Mars for the next several years.

Starting your day with one of the best-looking panoramic images of Mars is a pleasant reminder that we humans can do pretty incredible things. This inspiring photography is brought to us by NASA's ...