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 ...

The area containing the clay-bearing mounds is geologically connected to Oxia Planum, which is where Rosalind Franklin will be headed when it launches in 2028 in search of past life on Mars. It now ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In one of its latest activities, Perseverance captured a detailed nighttime mosaic image of an abrasion patch on a rock formation named ... for the findings on Mars. Due to safety constraints ...

Originally planned to deliver 30 sample tubes to Earth by the 2030s, the Mars Sample Return mission has faced rising expenses and delays, prompting the US space agency to explore more streamlined ...