One of the NASA rover’s main jobs was to collect rock samples for eventual shipment to Earth.
A resilient microbe is boosting researchers’ hopes for life on Mars.
Discovered in Antarctica in 1984, the meteorite kindled a debate that’s been raging for decades.
Under a proposed NASA framework, scientists would use a tiered scale to validate claims of life beyond Earth.
NASA’s current plan to produce propellant on Mars comes with an exorbitant price tag, hence the desire for…
NASA is getting a better idea of where to look for Martian fossils, thanks to new science from the Perseverance…
Second time's the charm. Sample tube 266 contains the rover's first rock, which NASA hopes to bring back to Earth on…
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NASA is recruiting participants to live and work in an isolated, 1,700-square-foot habitat known as Mars Dune Alpha.
Recent detections of something that looked like liquid water could be chalked up to an esoteric mineral, according…
Newly discovered rocks, with their histories wiped clean, are still considered good places to look for signs of…
The Martian craft flew far from the Perseverance rover this time, crossing treacherous dunes.
Temperatures around the Martian south pole mean the lakes are likely to be frozen.
Water that used to exist on Mars slowly leaked out into space, or at least that’s the going theory. A new paper…
When the NASA Mars rover Perseverance was dramatically airlifted through the Red Planet’s atmosphere and touched…
Ice sheets, and not rushing rivers, sculpted many Martian valleys, according to scientists. The new research…
Surprising quantities of bacteria have been found living in clay-rich rocks under the Pacific seafloor. The…
Unlike some people on Watchmen, I’m not even sure a hammer to the head might help at this point.
Mars’ surface, as far as we can tell, is not habitable to humans—it’s far too cold. But eventually, humanity would…
NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered “startlingly high amounts of methane in the Martian air” on Wednesday in what…
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By using the barren Atacama Desert in Chile as a stand-in for Mars, researchers have shown that it’s possible to use…