“This finding by Perseverance …is the closest we have ever come to discovering life on Mars,” said acting NASA administrator ...

NASA's Perseverance rover may have uncovered hints of ancient Martian life, but China's Tianwen 3 mission could be the first ...

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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover continues to beam home incredible sights from the Red Planet surface. This week, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) released an enhanced-color mosaic of 96 separate ...

Martian mudstones contain features that NASA says are the "clearest sign of life" yet on Mars, according to new findings from NASA’s Perseverance rover released Sept. 10. Specifically, the stones show ...

Bringing samples from Mars back to Earth is one of NASA's most ambitious goals. The plan goes back to the 1970s, with NASA's robotic exploration program, when the first spacecraft landed on the ...

"That would be a really cool discovery by itself," University of Iowa planetary geologist Valerie Payre said. "That would ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has been exploring the surface of Mars for evidence of ancient microbial life since 2021, but it’s ...

Mars is where that leadership will be proven. And if NASA is serious about sending humans there, and keeping them safe while they’re there, that investment in long-term infrastructure needs to start ...

In a Martian valley carved by ancient rivers, a four-pound helicopter sat in silence, its blades half-buried in red dust.

Aaron Stehura ’09 and Nagin Cox ’86 stretched the bounds of all that they learned on the Hill through the Perseverance Landing — a historical leap that will allow scientists to better understand Mars ...