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

Mars Ingenuity helicopter's 59th flight was captured by the Perseverance rover's Left Mastcam-Z camera. Credit: Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU | edited by Steve Spaleta ...

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

"Shorelines are great locations to look for evidence of past life." Today, Mars is a chilly desert of rock and dust — but 4 billion years ago, the planet had rivers, lakes and even oceans with ...

The more scientists study the Red Planet, the more they find unusual objects and patterns scattered across Mars' surface. As ...

An international team of scientists, including researchers at Penn State, used data from the Zhurong Mars rover to identify hidden layers of rock under the planet’s surface that strongly suggest the ...

Mars has fascinated people for centuries, not only because it is our closest neighbor in space but also because of its ...

Future missions and tests can further solidify the findings and deepen our understanding of the history of Mars. Samples have been collected NASA’s Perseverance rover and when it returns to ...

The evidence comes from data collected by China’s Zhurong Mars rover, which landed in the Utopia Planitia region of Mars in 2021. Unlike other rovers traversing the planet, Zhurong arrived with ...

The adverse environment is challenging for humans to land on and explore. This is where a Mars rover comes in handy. The Zhurong Mars rover is named after the mythological fire deity Zhurong and ...

including several Mars’ rovers, and the findings were compared to lab experiments "where the team tested how light interacts with ferrihydrite particles and other minerals under simulated ...