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The Perseverance rover found a rock on Mars that scientists think could show evidence that life once existed on the Red Planet. The rock – nicknamed "Cheyava Falls" after a waterfall in the Grand ...

"There are some instruments that just can't be miniaturized and sent to Mars." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has been exploring Mars' Jezero Crater since 2021 with the primary objective to investigate the environments that could have supported life in the past on the Red Planet. In ...

The team has made good progress implementing the initial recovery steps outlined in last week’s blog. Our first success: The upper two pebbles were ejected from the bit carousel during a test. This is ...

A rock sample collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover may contain evidence of ancient microbial life, preserved for billions of years on the Red Planet. The potential “biosignature” is not direct ...