This media is in the public domain (free of copyright restrictions). You can copy, modify, and distribute this work without contacting the Smithsonian. For more information, visit the Smithsonian's ...

Has NASA's Perseverance rover at long last found evidence that life did indeed once exist on Mars? Here's what we know.

Potential signs of microbial life were found in a rock sample collected by the rover in 2024 from an ancient dry riverbed on ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has delivered its most compelling clue yet in the search for life on Mars. A rock sample called ...

Nasa’s Perseverance Rover has collected unusual reddish rocks thought to be billions of years old that present some of the ...

NASA has announced that a sample collected on Mars by its Perseverance rover may contain evidence of ancient microbial life Perseverance took the sample from a rock named Cheyava Falls in a dry ...

In fairness to the Perseverance rover, this is exactly what it was built for. Nicknamed Percy, the machine was sent to Jezero ...

As the Perseverance rover traversed an ancient river valley in Mars' Jezero Crater back in July 2024, it drilled into the ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover collected a rock sample that NASA leaders say offers the best signs yet that ancient Mars ...

The rock, dubbed Cheyava Falls, was first examined in July 2024 while the rover explored the “Bright Angel” formation, a ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars has uncovered unusual features in rocks that suggest there may have once been life on the Red Planet, according to a new study. Why it matters: This discovery "is the closest ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover — built and managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge — collected a ...