The Perseverance rover's Mastcam-Z camera to captured this view on the rim of Jezero Crater. Credit: Space.com | footage ...

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The Mars Perseverance rover has been investigating the Jezero Crater and came across something that is not native to Mars at all. It is a meteorite that collided with the red planet. Though various ...

Editor at Large When the Perseverance rover landed in Mars’s Jezero crater—a formation that long ago was Jezero lake—in February, 2021 it turned west. West is where the riverbeds, the deltas, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Amid the mundane pebbly terrain of Mars' surface, NASA's Perseverance rover recently spotted something remarkable: a strange, ...

NASA's search for evidence of past life on Mars just produced an exciting update. On Sept. 10, 2025, a team of scientists published a paper detailing the Perseverance rover's investigation of a ...

After landing in February 2021, Perseverance has spent the ensuing years scouring the Martian soil and rocks for evidence that the planet was once habitable. The rover has so far spent about two ...

In a first for the Perseverance rover, it appears to have found an iron-nickel meteorite near the Jezero Crater. Reading time 2 minutes NASA’s Perseverance rover has seen its fair share of rocks, and ...

The Perseverance rover has spent more than three years on Mars scouring the area's rocks and soil for evidence that life once existed on the planet. Late in August, Perseverance began a slow ascent to ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has identified an exotic rock on Mars that may be an iron-nickel meteorite, according to scientists on the mission team. The oddly sculpted rock, nicknamed Phippsaksla, ...