NASA's Perseverance rover has for the first time helped scientists confirm that electrical sparks often ignite within ...

New laboratory studies could shed light on a rock containing potential signs of alien life that’s stranded on Mars ...

Two of NASA's giants of cosmic discovery, including a rover that launched from Florida, have been named among Time's best ...

It’s hard to form rocks like these without a lot of water,” said Dr. Briony Horgan, a planetary scientist and member of NASA’s Perseverance rover team. That single observation sums up the ...

Microphone recordings from NASA's Perseverance rover have turned up more than 50 instances of lightning on the red planet over the past four years, a new study finds.

NASA’s Perseverance rover has detected electrical sparks in dust devils on the planet Mars. The crackles, which the rover ...

Dust devils on Mars form when air near the warm surface heats up and rises through cooler surrounding air, causing nearby air ...

NASA has drafted its Mars rover Perseverance to help monitor the sun’s activity. Every day for the next two months, the rover will image the sun with its Mastcam-Z cameras, capturing crucial ...

Of course, everything on Mars has to be different from Earth — not even the thunder can sound like thunder. Instead, these tiny bits of lightning give off sounds more like those that people associate ...

NASA Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, Dr. Nicola Fox explains an intriguing rock that the ...

“This exciting discovery opens up new possibilities for auroral research and confirms that auroras could be visible to future astronauts on Mars’ surface." NASA's Perseverance rover just made ...

Perseverance has sent back another image of its new home on Mars. NASA released an immersive new panoramic image with 360-degree views of Mars on Wednesday that was taken by its Perseverance rover.