The intriguing chemistry of a rock collected by the Perseverance rover could trace to microbial activity — or not.

NASA’s Perseverance rover recently captured a stunning image of a black-and-white striped rock on Mars, sparking excitement ...

Mars just dropped a surprise golden nugget —literally. Curiosity accidentally cracked open an ordinary-looking rock, only to ...

NASA's Perseverance rover, which has been exploring Mars since 2021, fired its laser at some oddly pale rocks on the surface ...

Perseverance is pushing the limits of Martian science by using its SHERLOC instrument to detect organic compounds, but harsh ...

Mars may have once hosted an ocean with waves that lapped against sandy beaches ... Sedimentary rocks, carved channels and ...

Sometimes scientists must dig and work and sweat to make scientific discoveries. And sometimes a robot rolls over a rock that ...

With new data coming in from Mars, scientists have a new theory about why the planet is red. What does this mean for whether ...

For the fourth year in a row, iridescent clouds of frozen CO2 are lighting the Martian sky. The clouds appear in the same ...

Humans are determined to discover more details about Mars, Earth's neighboring planet, which seems to hide many secrets. So ...

Scientists have discovered kaolinite mineral on Mars, providing new evidence that the planet was once warm and wet.

A new study claims that a mineral found in Mars' dust called ferrihydrite, which forms in the presence of cool water, is ...