NASA is an eyewitness to just how weird Mars can be as evidenced by a “mushroom” rock spotted by the Perseverance rover. A red circle shows the mushroom-shaped rock seen by NASA's Perseverance ...

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has made a groundbreaking discovery on Mars by uncovering pure sulfur crystals within a broken rock.

The fascinating forms seem to be defying gravity, but that’s not unusual for Mars. Curiosity famously spotted a delicate, suspended rock formation in the shape of a spoon in August 2015.

An curved arrow pointing right. It's not everyday that you find a space rock on Mars. But that's exactly what NASA's Curiosity rover discovered on Oct. 27. The rock looks completely different from ...

A NASA rover on Mars has been collecting samples of rock and sealing them into metal tubes. NASA wants to launch a robotic mission that would pick up these samples and would return them to Earth. That ...

Billions of years ago, when Mars was young and dynamic ... from the meteorite Northwest Africa 7034 (NWA 7034), a unique rock containing some of the oldest known Martian minerals, including ...

For years, the U.S. space agency's Perseverance rover has been scouring Mars and scooping up intriguing rock samples. Some of those samples have been stashed away in cylindrical tubes on the ...

Previously, the Mars Sample Return mission had been estimated to cost around 11 billion dollars and would not return a sample until the 2040's, noted Nelson, who said a re-evaluation of the mission ...