Perseverance just stumbled upon one of Mars’ weirdest rocks yet—a formation covered in dark, spherical shapes with mysterious ...

Researchers may have answered one of space science's long-running questions -- and it could change our understanding of how life began. Carbon-rich asteroids are abundant in space yet make up less ...

Perseverance explores Jezero Crater’s rim, uncovering diverse rocks that reveal Mars’ ancient geology and possible signs of ...

Only the hardy carbon-rich asteroids make it to Earth, after surviving the Sun’s heat and the fiery burnup that occurs when ...

Microbes - alive and thriving -- have been found sealed within a fracture of 2-billion-year-old rock beneath Earth's surface.

NASA’s Perseverance and Curiosity rovers are uncovering some very strange rocks on the Martian surface. From "zebra stripes" ...

The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula.

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.

Fluorescent cave minerals are helping scientists explore how life could survive in harsh places like Europa. Far beneath Earth’s surface, rock and mineral formations conceal a hidden brilliance. When ...

NASA's celebrity astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams said Monday that they hold themselves partly responsible for what went wrong on their space sprint-turned-marathon and would fly on ...

The Perseverance Science Team were astonished by a strange rock comprised of hundreds of millimeter-sized spheres,' he said in a blog post on NASA's website. 'Placing these features in geologic ...

On March 11, while exploring near the Jezero Crater's edge, NASA's Perseverance rover encountered a peculiar rock located at Broom Point. The oddly textured rock is covered with hundreds of ...