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

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

Martian dust is mostly rust. Mars’s famed color has captivated humankind for centuries, earning its nickname of the ‘Red Planet’. Romans named Mars for their god of war because its colour was ...

Sometimes scientists must dig and work and sweat to make scientific discoveries. And sometimes a robot rolls over a rock that ...

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.

Robert Zubrin, the planet’s leading strategist for landing humans on Mars, predicts SpaceX’s Starship will win the race to speed astronauts to Mars, but not until 2031.

This isn’t any conspiracy theory or pseudoscience: Using samples collected from NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, Hausrath became the lead author of a study analyzing NASA’s first-ever Martian ...

This image of Mars' Valles Marineris hemisphere, captured on July 9, 2013, is a composite created from 102 images taken by ...

The adverse environment is challenging for humans to land on and explore. This is where a Mars rover comes in handy. The Zhurong Mars rover is named after the mythological fire deity Zhurong and ...

Mars expert Roger Wiens and his team, including the rover Perseverance, discovered fascinating rocks incorporating kaolinite ...