The scientists were especially intrigued by strong signals of carbonate minerals detected by Mars orbiters. On Earth, carbonates frequently form in shallow ocean and lake environments capable of ...

NASA's Perseverance rover landed on Mars in 2021 to search for signs of ancient microbial life and to help scientists understand the planet's climate and geography. But another key objective is to ...

From a modest tech demo to a historical Martian scout, Ingenuity changed space exploration forever. Here is the story behind ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's Perseverance rover has finally summitted the steep Martian crater where it landed more than three years ago to begin the ...

Perseverance found Jezero Crater rocks that were altered by water at least three times. The mineral clues point to a more ...

A carbonate-rich band of rock along the inside edge of Mars’ Jezero Crater looked like it might be the remains of an ancient ...

HOUSTON—NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has twice successfully demonstrated drives on the red planet planned by artificial intelligence (AI), an update from the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) ...

The newest and most advanced Mars exploration rover, the Perseverance, is the main topic of discussion over at NASA these days, after it managed to effectively climb out of the Jezero Crater where it ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has demonstrated that the six-wheeled “Percy” Perseverance Mars rover has the durability to operate until at least 2031 and trek on for at least another 37 mi.

A compromise spending bill enacted by Congress in January 2026 failed to save the Mars Sample Return program. The Trump ...

Perseverance has continued exploring beyond the rim of Jezero crater, spending time last week at Parnasset conducting a mini-campaign on aeolian bedforms. After wrapping up that work, three separate ...

In a study published Nov. 26 in Nature, Baptiste Chide, a postdoctoral fellow in planetary acoustics at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and his team report what they believe to be the first evidence ...