NASA’s Perseverance rover, now five years into its mission on Mars, has already traveled nearly 25 miles (40 kilometers) ...

NASA is about to lock in a verdict on how long its Perseverance rover can keep working on Mars, and the answer will shape the ...

New laboratory studies could shed light on a rock containing potential signs of alien life that’s stranded on Mars ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover may soon set a record for the longest distance driven on another planet.

NASA's Perseverance rover found kaolinite clay in Mars' Jezero Crater, proving ancient heavy rainfall and tropical-like ...

When the Perseverance rover arrived on Mars nearly five years ago, NASA officials thought the next American lander to take ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has for the first time helped scientists confirm that electrical sparks often ignite within ...

The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...

NASA's Perseverance robot, depicted here landing on the Martian dunes, used its cutting-edge cameras to image what could be the first evidence of life ever detected on Mars, opening the possibility ...

Scientists have created the most detailed map of Mars’ ancient river systems, pinpointing 16 major basins that may have once ...