SuperCam carried out its 500,000th laser shot on a Martian rock named "Whites river," located 12 meters from the Perseverance ...

Mars helicopter Ingenuity appears to be missing rotor blades in Perseverance rover imagery captured. The rover's SuperCam Remote imager was used to capture the pic. Credit: Space.com | NASA/JPL-Caltec ...

Sometimes scientists must dig and work and sweat to make scientific discoveries. And sometimes a robot rolls over a rock that ...

Scientists have discovered kaolinite mineral on Mars, providing new evidence that the planet was once warm and wet.

These rocks turned out to contain a mineral called kaolinite, which on Earth forms in warm, rainy environments or near hot ...

Ancient Mars may have been warmer, wetter, and weirder than expected, according to an discovery made by NASA's Mars ...

Nicolas Randazzo is proud of his unusual title: Mars 2020 Perseverance rover postdoctoral ... High-resolution cameras MastCam-Z and Supercam take zoomed in and out views of the Martian surface ...

The orange star represents the landing site of the Chinese rover Zhurong. The yellow star is the site of NASA's Perseverance rover, which landed a few months before Zhurong. The researchers ruled ...

The six-wheeled rover was sent to investigate Utopia Planitia, a region far from NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance rovers. It's the same rubbly plain where the U.S. Viking 2 lander touched down in ...

Seen as showing promising potential in future Mars science work, the UAV can take off at any time, traverse obstacles, and ...

The ripples suggest that the lake was free of ice at one point. Today, we know of Mars as a cold, dry desert, with patches of subterranean ice and ice caps at its poles. Billions of years ago ...