Scientists may be one step closer in their hunt for signs of past life on Mars after the Curiosity rover's latest find.
NASA’s long search for liquid water on Mars has produced its most significant result yet: evidence of vast reservoirs buried ...
The largest piece of Mars to ever make its way to Earth is now also the most valuable meteorite in the world. The large space rock, which has the scientific name of NWA 16788, had its Martian origins ...
Meteorite NWA 16788 is one of the rarest types of space rock on Earth Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places like ...
A 3.5-billion-year old rock discovered on the Red Planet is "the closest we've come to discovering ancient life on Mars," according to NASA. Potential signs of microbial life were found in a rock ...
The Perseverance rover found a rock on Mars that scientists think could show evidence that life once existed on the Red Planet. The rock – nicknamed "Cheyava Falls" after a waterfall in the Grand ...
The largest-known piece of Mars ever found on Earth is going up for auction on Wednesday and could fetch as much as $4 million because of the rareness of an extraterrestrial item. Sotheby’s auction ...
Scientists studying a rock sample collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover have uncovered something tantalizing: the largest ...
A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get them back to Earth. For years, the U.S. space agency's Perseverance rover has ...
NASA’s Curiosity rover has uncovered some of the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars, and scientists say ordinary geology may not fully explain them.
Who said there’s an egg crisis? NASA’s Perseverance Rover has stumbled across an extremely strange rock that’s “astonished” scientists while exploring the rim of the Jezero crater on Mars. Nicknamed ...
NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover has encountered something unlike anything else discovered on the Red Planet: a zebra-striped rock that sticks out like a sore thumb in the midst of the planet’s dusty, ...