Meteorite hunting is a side quest for Perseverance, whose primary job is to search for signs of ancient life in Jezero and ...

NASA's Perseverance rover spotted a possible space rock on the surface of Mars. The meteorite's nickname is 'Phippsaksla.' ...

NASA's Perseverance rover discovers shiny metallic rock on Mars that could be a meteorite from an ancient asteroid, ...

Analysis of the rock revealed it has a high concentration of iron and nickel, which is unusual in Martian rocks.

Mars is full of surprises, but this one had scientists leaning closer to their multi-monitor arrays: a rock, about 31 inches across, sitting alone in a field of fractured bedrock in a region called ...

Scientists have discovered living microbes producing methane in the fractured rocks deep inside Sweden's Siljan impact crater ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has stumbled across another strange discovery in the Jezero Crater on Mars. While exploring the ...

At 900 meters, the giant crater in southern China is three times larger than the previous Holocene recorder holder.

Meteorites have been common with other Mars rovers. In Gale Crater, Curiosity discovered a variety of iron-nickel meteorites, ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has identified Phippsaksla, a metal-rich rock likely to be an iron-nickel meteorite formed ...