NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is continuing its mission to collect samples despite uncertainty about when or if those ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has spent years combing Jezero Crater for subtle traces of ancient microbes, but one of its most ...

For decades, scientists have imagined Martian life as something that might look faintly familiar, perhaps microbes not so ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover continues collecting and studying Mars samples as uncertainty grows over the future of the Mars Sample Return program.

Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to ...

American space agency NASA said the Perseverance rover is good to go on Mars until at least 2031, both hardware and software ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took this selfie on July 23, 2024, the 1,218th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. To the left of the rover near the center of the image is the arrowhead-shaped rock ...

When the Perseverance rover arrived on Mars nearly five years ago, NASA officials thought the next American lander to take ...

When the Perseverance rover landed in Mars’s Jezero crater—a formation that long ago was Jezero lake—in February, 2021 it turned west. West is where the riverbeds, the deltas, the sites of ancient ...

We could be one step closer to proving alien existence. In 1996, a group of NASA scientists made a stunning announcement: The discovery of what appeared to be bacterial fossils on Mars. President Bill ...

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, ...

Built to last, NASA’s Perseverance rover continues its long journey across Mars, collecting samples and revealing the ...