One of the best parts about sending rovers like Perseverance to other planets, is sometimes they send back some absolutely ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has once again delivered a striking glimpse into the Martian environment, capturing a delicate ...

Mars is an inhospitable desert planet. Billions of years ago, things were different. In Jezero Crater, for example, fed by a ...

After NASA announced it had found potential evidence of ancient microbial life on Mars, imagery supposedly released by the US ...

NASA’s “leopard-spotted” Martian rock may be the clearest potential sign of ancient microbial life yet—proof awaits sample ...

(THE CONVERSATION) NASA’s search for evidence of past life on Mars just produced an exciting update. On Sept. 10, 2025, a team of scientists published a paper detailing the Perseverance rover’s ...

Has NASA's Perseverance rover at long last found evidence that life did indeed once exist on Mars? Well, after more than four years of scouring the Red Planet's rocky surface, the intrepid rover has ...

An international team of researchers has published a report on how Mars samples should be handled from a scientific point of ...

In just a few weeks, the newest exploration device that’ll traverse the surface of Mars will make its debut on the red planet. In July, the rover called Perseverance rocketed off from Cape Canaveral, ...

The Ingenuity helicopter from the Mars 2020 mission far exceeded its original mission of simply demonstrating controlled ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Ari Koeppel, Dartmouth College (THE CONVERSATION) NASA’s search for evidence of past ...