When the Perseverance rover landed in Mars’s Jezero crater—a formation that long ago was Jezero lake—in February, 2021 it turned west. West is where the riverbeds, the deltas, the sites of ancient ...

We've discovered a lot of strange things on Mars, but thus far, conclusive proof of life on the red planet has eluded us. Now, however, NASA has come as close as it ever has to confirming that Mars ...

The rover’s science instruments found that the formation’s sedimentary rocks are composed of clay and silt, which, on Earth, are excellent preservers of past microbial life. The findings were made ...