Perseverance represents more than a machine. It is a proxy extending humanity’s senses across millions of miles to an alien ...

Wildfires are an increasingly common feature of life in American West, and researchers are working overtime to understand how ...

"If there is a space race, China's already winning it, and could win it dramatically in the next few decades." ...

Only 370 people have been selected by NASA as astronauts, making it an extraordinarily small and elite group composed mostly ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover revealed 24 mineral types in Jezero Crater, showing Mars experienced several water episodes.

The question of whether there is or was life on Mars has been around for a long time, but NASA's Perseverance rover might ...

“This very well could be the clearest sign of life that we’ve ever found on Mars, which is incredibly exciting,” Acting NASA ...

New research using NASA's Perseverance rover has uncovered strong evidence that Mars' Jezero Crater experienced multiple ...

Jezero Crater’s rocks reveal three stages of water activity, shifting from hostile acidic fluids to more life-friendly ...

Roger Wiens has been a Mars explorer since he was 11 years old. He now leads the SuperCam instrument team on NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover.

In fairness to the Perseverance rover, this is exactly what it was built for. Nicknamed Percy, the machine was sent to Jezero crater, the remains of an ancient riverbed. If life ever existed on Mars, ...

Amy J. Williams receives funding from NASA and is a scientist on the NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission. When scientists started looking into the data, they found two types of iron-rich ...