NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered gemstone-like minerals on Mars, revealing unexpected clues about ancient water, geological activity and potentially habitable environments.

Rocks normal for Mars contained a gemstone mineral scientists didn't expect to find. (Ollila et al., Geophys. Res. Lett., 2026) When NASA's Perseverance rover used its laser to tease apart some pale ...

Earth disappearing behind the tiny moon Phobos. Seen from nearly 195 million miles away, our planet was reduced to a single point of light before briefly vanishing behind Phobos. The rare alignment ...

Earth appeared as a tiny dot in the Martian sky before briefly disappearing behind Phobos in a rare view captured by NASA’s ...

The NASA Perseverance rover's left Mastcam-Z camera captured an image of Mars helicopter Ingenuity. The little Red Planet ...

Perseverance caught Earth slipping behind Phobos on Mars, the first time anyone has recorded the sight from another planet's ...

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NASA’s Perseverance rover has driven a full marathon distance across the surface of Mars, covering 26.2 miles (42.195 km) in just over five years of operations. The milestone, reached on Sol 1890, ...

Perseverance rover selfie from early 2023. It’s a good thing NASA’s Perseverance rover doesn’t suffer from allergies, otherwise the wheeled explorer would be sneezing up a storm thanks to dusty ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover puts its robotic arm to work around a rocky outcrop called “Skinner Ridge” in Mars’ Jezero Crater. Composed of multiple images, this mosaic shows layered sedimentary rocks in ...

After nearly five years on Mars, NASA's Perseverance rover has traveled almost 25 miles (40 kilometers), and the mission team has been busy testing the rover's durability and gathering new science ...