NASA's Curiosity rover has made a groundbreaking discovery on Mars by uncovering pure sulfur crystals within a broken rock.

I’m one of a team of more than 500 travelers exploring Mars from California with the most sophisticated robot ever sent to another planet. As I write, Curiosity is pounding a hole into a rock in ...

Fossil ripple marks are the clearest evidence of waves and water that NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover ... [+] has ever found. Recent ripple marks as seen on Earth. "This is the best evidence of ...

The 3.7-billion-year-old formations in the planet's Gale Crater suggest the presence of long-gone bodies of liquid water, with no ice covering the surface ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover ran over a rock on Mars in late May. That’s par for the course on the red planet, but there was something very different about this rock. It had a surprise inside ...

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A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get them back to Earth.

This story appears in the November 2018 issue ... Jet Propulsion Laboratory and is a principal investigator for the Mars 2020 rover mission—the first mission, she says, with “the primary ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has collected a sample from Mars that has textures “unlike anything we’ve ever seen before.” Known ...

On Feb. 18, 2021, NASA’s Perseverance rover landed ... and ascent vehicles on Mars. The other alternative involves NASA keeping more of the work in-house. Like the Curiosity and Perseverance ...

Dozens of samples of rock and sediment collected from Mars that could be used to detect ancient microbial life could be returned to Earth as soon as 2035 and as late as 2039, depending on the course ...

For years, the U.S. space agency's Perseverance rover has been scouring Mars and scooping up intriguing ... rocket to lower NASA’s Perseverance and Curiosity rovers via cable onto the Martian ...