Samples taken from an ancient Mars rock may indicate that ancient life once existed on the Red Planet, according to a study ...
Scientists may be one step closer in their hunt for signs of past life on Mars after the Curiosity rover's latest find.
The largest piece of Mars to ever make its way to Earth is now also the most valuable meteorite in the world. The large space rock, which has the scientific name of NWA 16788, had its Martian origins ...
NEW YORK CITY — Tucked away in a building on the corner of 72nd Street and York Avenue in Lenox Hill, an extraterrestrial marvel sits sturdily on a white pedestal. It's the largest Mars rock on planet ...
Meteorite NWA 16788 is one of the rarest types of space rock on Earth Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places like ...
The Perseverance rover found a rock on Mars that scientists think could show evidence that life once existed on the Red Planet. The rock – nicknamed "Cheyava Falls" after a waterfall in the Grand ...
A 3.5-billion-year old rock discovered on the Red Planet is "the closest we've come to discovering ancient life on Mars," according to NASA. Potential signs of microbial life were found in a rock ...
The largest-known piece of Mars ever found on Earth is going up for auction on Wednesday and could fetch as much as $4 million because of the rareness of an extraterrestrial item. Sotheby’s auction ...
A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get them back to Earth. For years, the U.S. space agency's Perseverance rover has ...
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captured this image of a rocky area nicknamed “Cheyava Falls” on July 18, 2024, showing black “poppy seed” and larger “leopard spot” features. Researchers say a sample ...
Who said there’s an egg crisis? NASA’s Perseverance Rover has stumbled across an extremely strange rock that’s “astonished” scientists while exploring the rim of the Jezero crater on Mars. Nicknamed ...