In June, 2024, Perseverance, a NASA rover sent to collect samples on the surface of Mars, came upon a cluster of rocks in what is thought to be a former riverbed. Most of the rocks were identified as ...

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NASA has long been searching for definitive signs of life on Mars, and it seems like NASA’s Perseverance rover has found the clearest signs yet in the form of some green, blue, black, and white dots ...

Let's say you've picked the perfect spot for building a settlement on Mars. But this opens up some pretty nasty questions. Building…what? And building….with what? There are no trees to chop down to ...

Mars and Spica will appear in close proximity (2° separation) in the evening western sky shortly after sunset, setting before 9 PM local daylight time. Observations of Mars and Spica are best ...

NASA announced it found promising potential biosignatures on Mars. Potential biosignatures are things like chemicals and structures that could be a result of life on the planet, but more research was ...

NASA on Monday introduced the 10 people — selected from a pool of 8,000 applicants — who will join the agency’s astronaut corps as it races to return to the moon before attempting an unprecedented ...

"The results reported here can be crucial when down-selecting which samples, if not all, are returned to Earth." Only a little over a week after scientists announced NASA's Perseverance rover may have ...

The Perseverance rover sampled Cheyava Falls, a rock with "leopard spots," on Mars last year. NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS A rock sampled by NASA’s Perseverance rover from an ancient, dry riverbed on ...