Jezero Crater on Mars was once home to a lake, delta and rivers. See an animation of what it could have looked like when water poured into the crater billions of years ago and present day. Credit: ...

Jezero Crater is the home of NASA's Perseverance rover. See a bird's-eye view of the crater with this animated flyover created using data from ESA's Mars Express orbiter and the Mars Reconnaissance ...

Dozens of samples collected from missions on Mars that could be used to detect ancient microbial life could be returned as ...

NASA wants to return Mars samples to Earth, but budget problems and technical woes have the mission caught between a rock and ...

The original NASA sample return plan required a remarkable fleet of spaceships. First, Perseverance would land on Mars and, while exploring Jezero Crater, collect samples. (Perseverance is technically ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover reveals Mars isn’t entirely red, capturing blue rocks suggesting ancient lakes, water activity, and ...

The hunt for life on Mars is driven by more than curiosity – it seeks to understand humanity's place in the universe.

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, which flew on Mars in April 2021, became the first aircraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on a planet other than Earth.

In a special episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast to start 2025, we've brought together three science editors from The ...

"The NASA/ESA approach to MSR seeks to address as many different high-priority science questions about Mars as we can from one location - Jezero Crater," said MEPAG chair, Victoria Hamilton ...