NASA's Perseverance rover has encountered another rock on Mars that has left scientists puzzled. Named "St. Pauls Bay" by the mission team, the Mars rock features hundreds of millimeter-size dark ...

“There is evidence that liquid water existed in Gale Crater for millions of years and probably much longer, which means there ...

Our study proves that, even today, by analysing Mars samples we could detect chemical signatures of past life, if it ever ...

They were found by NASA's Curiosity rover when it drilled into a sample of mudstone from a rock nicknamed 'Cumberland', in the Yellowknife Bay region of Mars' Gale crater, all the way back in 2013.

Scientists analyzed a sample, which likely contained fatty acids, that transformed into alkanes during the heating process ...

Studying these layers can give scientists insights into the environmental conditions during the rocks' formation, which can help reconstruct Mars' geological history. It was while the rover was ...

The NASA Curiosity rover has discovered the largest organic compounds ever found on Mars, suggesting that the conditions for life to develop could have been present on the planet billions of years ...

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The adverse environment is challenging for humans to land on and explore. This is where a Mars rover comes in handy. The Zhurong Mars rover is named after the mythological fire deity Zhurong and ...