In 2024, NASA's Mars rover Perseverance collected an unusual rock sample. The rock, named Sapphire Canyon, features white, ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory says Perseverance's new image is "one of the sharpest panoramas of its mission so far." ...

It’s the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth — a 54-pound (25-kilogram) meteorite that fetched more than $5 million at ...

Scientists have found tiny crystal worlds teeming with life at the Great Salt Lake — a discovery that could reveal how ...

A Ph.D. student and his supervisor have developed a simple way to test for active life on Mars and other planets using ...

Yet, despite using the JWST's sensitive Near-Infrared Spectrometer, or NIRSpec, astronomers led by Piaulet-Ghorayeb found no ...

Mars, once thought too cold and dry for liquid water, may briefly host salty brines twice a day during certain seasons. These ...

A 360-degree panorama, taken by the Perseverance Rover on Mars, could just as easily have been snapped in a rocky desert ...

In July, the largest meteorite from Mars was auctioned off in New York for a record sum. It is now being investigated whether ...

Mars’s Acheron Fossae reveals a frozen, fractured landscape shaped by ancient forces, holding clues to the planet’s climate ...

Thirteen years after landing on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity rover is running smarter and more efficiently than ever. With new ...

Scientists from SETI and NASA Ames have identified a rare iron sulfate on Mars that may be a new mineral, formed by heat, ...