In a first for the Perseverance rover, it appears to have found an iron-nickel meteorite near the Jezero Crater.

Scientists stumbled upon a strange formation that may have crash-landed from somewhere else in the solar system.

Interest in Martian life had been spurred by a now infamous announcement from the White House lawn in 1996, when President ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has made a groundbreaking discovery on Mars, identifying a peculiar rock that may be an iron-nickel meteorite. This intriguing find not only highlights the capabilities of ...

Scientists suspect iron meteorites might be able to resist erosion on Mars, which may explain why some appear perched on flat ground rather than embedded in craters. In other cases, a crater may have ...

More than five years into its mission, NASA's Mars Perseverance rover is still ambling across the surface of the red planet, ...

NASA spacecraft across the inner solar system captured new views of Comet 3I/ATLAS—the third known interstellar object ...

Fresh from finding potential biosignatures on the Bright Angel formation in Cheyava Falls, announced in September, NASA's ...

In a remarkable discovery that has captivated scientists and space enthusiasts alike, NASA's Perseverance rover has found a rock on Mars that appears to be an extraterrestrial visitor. Named ...

According to the early analysis with the rover's SuperCam laser and spectrometers, a high concentration of iron and nickel ...

This is not the first time an 'alien' rock has been found on Mars. NASA's Curiosity rover previously identified iron–nickel meteorites in Gale Crater, including the one-metre-wide 'Lebanon' in 2014 ...

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