The rock was discovered by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Perseverance rover. According to ...

Scientists appear to have unravelled the mystery of Mars' "Martian dichotomy" - a contrast between its southern highlands and northern lowlands that's puzzled experts for over half a century.

Kaolinite is a soft, earthy, usually white, mineral produced by the chemical weathering of aluminium silicate minerals like ...

For the first time, a Mars rover has measured the mass of the rocks beneath its wheels. By taking gravity measurements as it climbed a Martian mountain, Curiosity discovered something surprising ...

Perseverance landed on Mars in 2021 near Jezero Crater with several objectives in mind: scour the area for possible signs of ancient life, collect rock samples like "Silver Mountain" for an ...

18. Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech. After launching nearly six months ago, NASA’s Perseverance Rover finally landed on Mars on Thursday and Mountain View’s NASA Ames Research Center played a big ...

Dubbed “Silver Mountain,” it has been sealed for further analysis in labs on Earth, holding secrets of Mars’ geological past. The rover collected its 26th sample after climbing the western ...