Since its touchdown in Jezero Crater in February 2021, NASA’s Perseverance rover has steadily explored Martian rocks. From ...

NASA's Curiosity Rover has discovered long carbon chains on Mars. On Earth, molecules like these are overwhelmingly produced ...

NASA’s Perseverance and Curiosity rovers are uncovering some very strange rocks on the Martian surface. From "zebra stripes" ...

Did hot water once flow on Mars? Perseverance rover has collected rock samples from the Jezero Crater that are rich in silica ...

Some of the unusual rocks carry stories about water on Mars. One has hints of long-gone microbes. All tell of a dynamic, complex planet.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover's navigation camera captured a Martian dust devil swallowing a smaller one. The smaller dust devil's demise was captured during an imaging experiment carried out by ...

The rover itself is the work of the European Space Agency (ESA), Thales Alenia Space, and Airbus. Part of a Mars exploration program called ExoMars, it will go looking for signs of life deeper ...

The first UK-built rover, due to depart for Mars in 2028, will drill two metres into the planet’s surface to hunt for signs of ancient life, such as fossilised microbes, in an effort to find out how ...

At the time, Perseverance's science team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California was using the rover to study and understand the forces at play in Mars' atmosphere. Dust devils ...