As a new paper in Nature reports, a sample Perseverance drilled from the rock may contain potential biosignatures of long ago microbial life.“This finding by Perseverance…is the closest we have ever ...

In fairness to the Perseverance rover, this is exactly what it was built for. Nicknamed Percy, the machine was sent to Jezero ...

A new study in the journal Nature detailing chemicals found in rocks on the surface of Mars could be among the strongest evidence for life having been on the surface.

Mars is known for its barren desert landscape and dry climate. But two recent studies in the journals Nature and Science go ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has added to its trove of curious finds, as the space agency published a photo of a rock on the surface of Mars that looks like a centuries-old helmet. The rock has a pointed ...

As NASA's Perseverance rover, a car-sized robotic explorer, looks for signs of possible ancient life on Mars, it has stumbled ...

Fragments left behind from massive space debris that struck Mars about 4.5 billion years ago are believed to be buried deep beneath the planet’s surface, according to new research published in the ...

Swinburne and CSIRO researchers have successfully produced iron in Mars-like conditions, opening the door to metal production ...

While Mars today only has a wispy remnant of an atmosphere, it may once have had one hundreds of times thicker with a ...