A rock sample drilled from the floor of an ancient Martian lakebed has yielded seven organic molecules never before ...

On a battered rock in an ancient Martian riverbed, a pattern of dark, rounded patches has jolted planetary science. These “leopard spots” do not just look strange, they line up uncannily with what ...

Companies in the space industry set up their displays for the Space Symposium at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs on Saturday, April 11, 2026. (The Gazette, Michael G. Seamans) When it landed on Mars ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s newest Mars rover has completed its first sample grab, tucking away the tube of rock for return to Earth. The Perseverance rover team confirmed last week’s ...

As NASA is set to land the Perseverance rover on Mars on Thursday, part of the rover’s mission is to take a sample of Martian soil and return it to Earth someday. While samples of the Moon have been ...

This is an annotated close-up of three holes NASA’s Curiosity drilled into Martian rock at a location nicknamed “Mary Anning” ...

"This experiment's never been run before on another world," said Amy Williams, an astrobiologist working on the Curiosity mission.

NASA’s Mars 2020 rover may end up looking a lot like Curiosity, but its mission will be taking exploration of the Red Planet to the next level: looking for signs of past life. In an announcement ...

A drill hole in an ancient Martian rock has yielded something more complicated than a simple yes-or-no answer about life. NASA’s Curiosity rover has identified a broad mix of organic molecules on Mars ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In July of 2020, NASA engineers sent a rover named Perseverance hurtling into space. And ...