A biosignature is any characteristic, element, molecule, substance or feature that serves as evidence for past or present ...

New research supported by Brock University Earth Sciences professors has uncovered findings that could provide the clearest ...

NASA’s next Mars rover has passed its first driving test. A preliminary assessment of its activities on Dec. 17, 2019, found that the rover checked all the necessary boxes as it rolled forward and ...

For the past few months, the clean room floor in High Bay 1 at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has been covered in parts, components and test equipment for the Mars 2020 ...

Nearly two years since the Mars 2020 mission first launched, the robot astrobiologist known as Perseverance has given us a novel and sometimes surprising look at the Red Planet. Outfitted with a ...

NASA's Mars 2020 rover is continuing to explore a boundary visible from orbit dividing bright, fractured outcrop from darker, smoother regolith (also known as a contact). The team has called this ...

The otherworldly photos from Mars' newest robotic resident keep rolling in. NASA's Perseverance rover, which touched down inside the 28-mile-wide (45 kilometers) Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, captured ...

A class that combined physics and calculus supercharged Moogega Cooper’s love of science, helping set the path to her crucial role as planetary protection lead of NASA’s 2020 mission to Mars. And ...