Perseverance recently explored the rim of Jezero Crater, a 28-mile-wide (45-kilometer) impact crater on Mars that may once ...

New clues found underneath Jezero Crater.

The latest evidence that Mars was once a warmer, wetter world comes from a surprising place—the hidden subsurface depths of ...

Nickel on Earth is used by many microorganisms to run their metabolic processes.

Scientists studying Mars rocks have found a metal-rich mineral. This raised news question about whether the red planet once ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has spotted an oddball rock in an ancient river channel on Mars. Deputy project scientist Katie ...

Perseverance found the minerals in an ancient river channel, but researchers say geology may still beat biology ...

More evidence that Mars was once a habitable, wet oasis not dissimilar to Earth has been found in the rocks scattered throughout the red planet. A team of researchers who analyzed the thousands of ...

Perseverance sampling a rock called Cheyava Falls in Neretva Vallis. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) The discovery of abundant nickel ...

This subsurface architecture reframes the timeline of Jezero Crater’s watery past. The radar data from the rover’s ...

The Mars Perseverance rover has been investigating the Jezero Crater and came across something that is not native to Mars at all. It is a meteorite that collided with the red planet. Though various ...

The surface of Mars carries many traces of a past watery climate, including ancient river channels, deltas, and paleolakes.