When a Mars rover accidentally crushed a small rock and exposed a flash of vivid yellow inside, it turned a routine drive into one of the most intriguing discoveries of the mission. The fractured ...

NASA 's Perseverance rover has discovered a highly unusual rock lying on the surface of Mars. The lumpy boulder, which has a metal-rich composition, is most likely a meteorite that crash-landed on the ...

A metallic-looking rock sitting on the Martian surface has jolted a mission that was already rewriting what we know about the Red Planet. After years of scanning dust, dunes and ancient lakebeds, a ...

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is transforming into a Martian shutterbug. Since its spectacular landing on Sunday (Aug. 5 PDT) , the car-size rover has beamed home swift views of its Gale Crater landing ...

The Mars Perseverance rover has been investigating the Jezero Crater and came across something that is not native to Mars at all. It is a meteorite that collided with the red planet. Though various ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has detected electrical sparks within dust devils on Mars for the first time. The rover's SuperCam instrument recorded dozens of audio clips of the discharges, which sound ...

When the Perseverance rover arrived on Mars nearly five years ago, NASA officials thought the next American lander to take aim on the red planet would be taking shape by now. At the time, the leaders ...