NASA’s Perseverance rover has made a groundbreaking discovery on Mars, identifying what scientists are calling the ‘Clearest ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover, a $2.7 billion mission, faced a significant challenge when it nearly lost a critical tool during its operations on Mars. This incident, recently reported, highlights the ...

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

After four rounds of layoffs in two years that cut a quarter of its employees, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory now faces a ...

NASA aims to return Martian soil and rock samples to Earth in the 2030s, marking the first such planetary sample return mission. A decision on the mission profile is delayed until mid-2026. Two ...

In what appears to be a jab at NASA, Rocket Lab this week unveiled its own plan to return rock and dust samples the space agency has been collecting from Mars’ Jezero Crater since 2021. NASA earlier ...

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

A mudstone sample from Jezero Crater shows textures and minerals that on Earth often form through microbial activity. Scientists caution that nonbiological processes could also explain the features, ...