When a Mars rover accidentally crushed a small rock and exposed a flash of vivid yellow inside, it turned a routine drive ...
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has made another strange discovery. While investigating the Vernodden area of Jezero Crater – ...
Meet LRU1: the adorable lunar rover with a multispectral stereo camera head that's helping scientists hunt for ice ...
NASA's Perseverance rover found a peculiar rock on Mars. Its composition suggests it may have originated from beyond our ...
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has suggested that this rock may be a meteorite, containing elements typically associated with iron-nickel meteorites formed in the cores of large asteroids.
Perseverance’s challenging three-and-a-half month climb out of Jezero Crater has definitely been worth it, with NASA reportedly discovering a fascinating array of rocks worthy of detailed examination.
The 80-centimeter (31-inch) wide rock, named “Phippsaksla", stands out from its environment. It was found back on September 2, 2025, using Perseverance's Left Mastcam-Z camera, on Sol 1612, the ...
In a first for the Perseverance rover, it appears to have found an iron-nickel meteorite near the Jezero Crater.
The Mars 2020 mission’s rover is set to be NASA’s next interplanetary explorer, scheduled to make it to the surface of Mars sometime in the summer of 2020. In 1997, when NASA landed the Pathfinder, it ...
Scientists have announced the discovery of the largest organic molecules ever found on Mars. These molecules could have come from the breakdown of fatty acids that existed 3.7 billion years ago before ...
It wasn’t enough to trawl the Titanic or craft the film industry’s best looking azure-blue E.T.’s, filmmaker James Cameron wanted to put a high-resolution 3D camera on NASA’s Mars rover, too. Alas, ...