The Perseverance rover on Mars is set to begin its newest challenge: a slog up the rim of the Jezero Crater that will take months to complete. The rover will face steep slopes and difficult terrain, ...

Scientists with NASA’s Perseverance rover are exploring what they consider a veritable Martian cornucopia full of intriguing rocky outcrops on the rim of Jezero Crater. Studying rocks, boulders, and ...

But after analyzing deeply drilled rock core from the impact site created by the six-mile-wide asteroid, geologists have ...

Some of the unusual rocks carry stories about water on Mars. One has hints of long-gone microbes. All tell of a dynamic, complex planet.

Mars just threw us another curveball. NASA’s Perseverance rover recently uncovered a surprising rock formation. On the lower ...

Researchers have proposed many origins for a gravity anomaly in Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, but the latest evidence ...

The Perseverance rover has found some intriguing samples on the red planet. Here's what they might reveal about the origins of life in our universe—if we can get them back to Earth. Clouds of ...

While ascending Mount Sharp, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has had to swing around a small ridgeline dubbed "Devil’s Gate." ...

One part of this plan would require increasing the planet’s atmospheric pressure, and one scientist suggests that capturing ...

New research in Sweden has uncovered perplexingly high methane emissions coming from the largest meteorite crater in Europe. The Siljan Ring is a prehistoric impact structure in central Sweden ...

A hydrothermal vent along the Mid-At­lantic Ridge. © Marum, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Around 66 million years ago ...