UPDATE for 11 am ET: NASA's Perseverance rover has discovered sediment formations that could be signs of possible biosignatures on Mars, but they could also have a non-biological source. Read our ...

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Perseverance rover discovered a rock, named Cheyava Falls, containing organic compounds and exhibiting features suggestive of past microbial activity, including distinctive colored spots and evidence ...

The imaging team of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has taken advantage of clear skies on the red planet to capture one of the sharpest panoramas of its mission so far. Visible in the mosaic, which was ...

Amid the mundane pebbly terrain of Mars' surface, NASA's Perseverance rover recently spotted something remarkable: a strange, striped object the agency is now calling the "zebra rock." Perseverance, ...

As NASA's Perseverance rover, a car-sized robotic explorer, looks for signs of possible ancient life on Mars, it has stumbled across some interesting things. Recently, on Aug. 31 (the 1,610th sol, or ...

NASA's Mars rover Perseverance has uncovered rocks in a dry river channel that may hold potential signs of ancient microscopic life, scientists reported Wednesday. They stressed that in-depth analysis ...

Minerals linked to microbial processes on Earth found in riverbed rock A rock sample collected by NASA’s Perseverance rover from an ancient riverbed in Jezero Crater may contain the strongest evidence ...

The Perseverance rover will begin the Crater Rim Campaign on Aug. 19. Marking a new journey in NASA's exploration of Mars, the Perseverance rover is set to begin a monthslong, steep and challenging ...

"If two dust devils happen upon each other, they can either obliterate one another or merge, with the stronger one consuming the weaker." NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured a giant dust devil ...

A road trip has begun on Mars. NASA’s Perseverance rover, which has been roaming the red planet since 2021, has embarked on a long trek to the top of the crater in which it landed, the space agency ...