The Mars rover captured images of low ridges called boxwork patterns, which appear like spiderwebs from space.

NASA's Perseverance rover is digging deeper into Mars' geologic past as it begins grinding into rock surfaces to expose ...

A hidden box-lattice suggests groundwater sculpted Mars long after surface water fled; Curiosity’s drills aim to confirm the ...

Wave-like landforms on Mars provide clues about the planet’s icy history, its potential to support life, and the behavior of ...

"Returning the scientifically selected samples that await us on Mars, as part of a balanced portfolio, will help to ensure ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover faced a challenging Mars rock named “Kenmore,” revealing valuable insights into Martian geology.

The origin of life is one of the most fundamental and enduring questions of mankind and one of the three greatest Origin ...

The Perseverance rover finds a mysterious black rock on Mars, “Skull Hill,” which intrigues scientists because of its ...

New NASA experiments reveal that Mars formed its core much faster than Earth, thanks to molten iron and nickel sulfides seeping through solid rock. This discovery reshapes our understanding of ...

The Perseverance rover has found some intriguing samples on the red planet. Here's what they might reveal about the origins of life in our universe—if we can get them back to Earth.

Collecting samples from Mars has been a goal since the 1970s, but with ballooning costs and extended delays, the mission has felt just out of reach. Yet the human drive to explore won’t let us fail.

A post on Perseverance’s X account described the sample — named Silver Mountain by NASA — as “unlike anything we’ve seen before,” adding that it’s sealed the rock core in a sample ...