NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered gemstone-like minerals on Mars, revealing unexpected clues about ancient water, geological activity and potentially habitable environments.

Earth disappearing behind the tiny moon Phobos. Seen from nearly 195 million miles away, our planet was reduced to a single point of light before briefly vanishing behind Phobos. The rare alignment ...

Rocks normal for Mars contained a gemstone mineral scientists didn't expect to find. (Ollila et al., Geophys. Res. Lett., 2026) When NASA's Perseverance rover used its laser to tease apart some pale ...

Earth appeared as a tiny dot in the Martian sky before briefly disappearing behind Phobos in a rare view captured by NASA’s ...

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Perseverance caught Earth slipping behind Phobos on Mars, the first time anyone has recorded the sight from another planet's ...

The NASA Perseverance rover's left Mastcam-Z camera captured an image of Mars helicopter Ingenuity. The little Red Planet ...

After nearly five years on Mars, NASA's Perseverance rover has traveled almost 25 miles (40 kilometers), and the mission team has been busy testing the rover's durability and gathering new science ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has finally summitted the steep Martian crater where it landed more than three years ago to begin the next leg of its journey exploring the Red Planet. The arduous climb, ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover puts its robotic arm to work around a rocky outcrop called “Skinner Ridge” in Mars’ Jezero Crater. Composed of multiple images, this mosaic shows layered sedimentary rocks in ...