In those drill sites, Curiosity detected deposits containing an iron carbonate material called siderite. According to Ben ...

Two NASA rovers on Mars recently made two independent discoveries further indicating that ancient life may have once existed ...

Perseverance explores Jezero Crater’s rim, uncovering diverse rocks that reveal Mars’ ancient geology and possible signs of ...

Perseverance just stumbled upon one of Mars’ weirdest rocks yet—a formation covered in dark, spherical shapes with mysterious ...

To study Mars’s chemical and mineral makeup, the Curiosity rover drills one to 1.5 inches down into the subsurface, then ...

NASA's Curiosity rover made a compelling find on Mars' irradiated surface. The car-sized robot's molecule-sleuthing ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) selected Airbus to make the lander for the Rosalind Franklin Mars rover, scheduled to launch in 2028 ...

The Cumberland rock is made from clay-rich sedimentary ... by Curiosity's Sample Analysis on Mars (SAM) suite of instruments. Using this suite, the rover drills a rock sample and scoops it into ...

Each fatty acid remnant detected by Curiosity was made with a long chain of ... a complicated symphony of missions called Mars Sample Return. Both rovers have detected a variety of organic carbon ...

Two NASA rovers on Mars recently made two independent discoveries further indicating that ancient life may have once existed on the Red Planet. The U.S. space agency's Perseverance and Curiosity ...

Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS NASA's Curiosity rover made a compelling find on Mars' irradiated surface. The car-sized robot's molecule-sleuthing instrument, called Sample Analysis at Mars ...