In 2023, NASA's Curiosity rover found opal on Mars. Now Perseverance has added some new gems to the list.

NASA’s Perseverance rover has detected tiny corundum grains—the mineral behind rubies and sapphires—inside rocks along Jezero ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has spotted a rock so intriguing that the public has voted it “Image of the Week.” A bizarre ...

The Curiosity rover conducted a first-of-its kind experiment on Mars, detecting organic molecules that have never been ...

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"This experiment's never been run before on another world," said Amy Williams, an astrobiologist working on the Curiosity ...

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Unlike on Earth there aren’t dozens of satellites whizzing around Mars to provide satellite navigation functionality. Recently NASA’s JPL engineers tried something with the Perseverance Mars rover ...

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 ...

Drexel University alumna Moogega “Moo” Cooper, PhD, Planetary Protection Lead for the Mars rover Perseverance and Group ...

Like most other rovers sent to alien worlds, the Perseverance was built to last. Although it was technically designed to conduct its core mission – finding signs of ancient life – in one Martian year ...