In fairness to the Perseverance rover, this is exactly what it was built for. Nicknamed Percy, the machine was sent to Jezero ...

NASA has found potential signs of life on Mars, the agency said last Wednesday. Although additional scientific study is ...

The rover carries a drill to penetrate rocks and tubes to hold the samples gathered from places judged most suitable for ...

NASA rover Perseverance collected evidence being considered by agency officials as 'the closest we have ever come to ...

Jezero Crater has become one of the most exciting places in the search for signs of past life on Mars. Since landing in 2021, NASA’s Perseverance rover has been exploring the crater’s ancient river ...

After a year of scientific scrutiny, a rock sample collected by the Perseverance rover has been confirmed to contain a potential biosignature. The sample is the best candidate so far to provide ...

“This finding by Perseverance …is the closest we have ever come to discovering life on Mars,” said acting NASA administrator ...

"The idea was for our payload to get us just up to the potential biosignature designation and have the rest of the story told ...

Minerals in the rock might have been produced by microbes in chemical reactions, but researchers say they’ll need to examine ...

Has NASA's Perseverance rover at long last found evidence that life did indeed once exist on Mars? Here's what we know.

NASA scientists have announced that the Perseverance Mars rover discovered potential evidence that life exists on Mars.