"The discovery of abundant siderite in Gale Crater represents both a surprising and important breakthrough in our ...

Scientists using NASA’s Curiosity rover have discovered siderite—an iron carbonate—in the sulfate-rich rocks of Gale Crater, ...

Mars attracts attention in an odd way. This time, it has to do with a skull-shaped rock rather than cold poles or old rivers.

Though most of the region surrounding the rock is light-colored and dusty, Skull Hill is dark, angular, and covered in tiny ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover snapped this eerie shot of ‘Skull Hill’ — a dark, pockmarked float rock - as it rolled west down ...

Mars just threw us another curveball. NASA’s Perseverance rover recently uncovered a surprising rock formation. On the lower ...

A mineral called siderite found abundantly in rock drilled by a NASA rover on the surface of Mars is providing fresh evidence ...

Researchers bombarded lichens with a year's worth of Martian radiation in just 5 hours — and they survived, hinting that the ...

Researchers may have found clues of possible ancient life beneath Mars' surface thanks to the Perseverance rover.

Since its touchdown in Jezero Crater in February 2021, NASA’s Perseverance rover has steadily explored Martian rocks. From ...

Skull Hill is completely different from the other things that has been spotted on the Red Planet so far, which has raised ...

To study Mars’s chemical and mineral makeup, the Curiosity rover drills one to 1.5 inches down into the subsurface, then ...