The intriguing chemistry of a rock collected by the Perseverance rover could trace to microbial activity — or not.

NASA's Perseverance rover has spotted an oddball rock in an ancient river channel on Mars. Deputy project scientist Katie ...

Perseverance is pushing the limits of Martian science by using its SHERLOC instrument to detect organic compounds, but harsh ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover found large crystals of quartz with a high purity on Mars, which probably had to have formed in the ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover found pale rocks containing kaolinite on Mars, a mineral that forms in warm, wet conditions.

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Since its arrival on the Martian surface five years ago, NASA’s Perseverance rover has been busy scouring the Red Planet for ...

The Perseverance team have faced a stubborn engineering challenge. After successfully collecting a core called "Green Gardens ...

The rock was discovered by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Perseverance rover. According to ...

With new data coming in from Mars, scientists have a new theory about why the planet is red. What does this mean for whether ...

It's well established that Mars used to be a wet world covered in oceans, and in recent years, astronomers have uncovered not ...