When liquid water still existed on Mars, it carried dissolved minerals into rock cracks, NASA said. Once the liquid dried, it ...

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NASA - PHOTO: Smaller than a penny, the flower-like rock artifact on the left was imaged by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover using its Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera on the end of its robotic arm.

This study comes as Mars has several active NASA rovers exploring its surface, along with artifacts from the former Soviet Union and China also sitting on the Martian surface, having long since ending ...

Are human spacecraft, landers, rovers and other space-exploration debris little more than trash littering the surface of Mars, or the modern equivalent of Clovis points—treasured artifacts ...

Anthropologists have proposed that the human-made junk strewn on Mars should be thought of as artifacts in need of preservation rather than trash.

NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if the cache can make it back in the 2030s.

NASA posted an image of two objects the Mars Perseverance rover passed while traversing the Martian desert: a discarded parachute and a metal capsule.

The NASA rover Perseverance recently discovered a strange rock on Mars, which appears to be made up of small rounded stones a few hundred millimeters in diameter. NASA’s research team is trying ...

The Mars Sample Return mission has been ranked as the highest priority by planetary scientists, who hope to find signs of ancient life on Mars.