Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advances and more. NASA’s Perseverance rover may have found a key clue for its mission to Mars: geological evidence that could suggest life existed on the red planet billions of years ago. The robotic explorer came across a… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. NASA’s Perseverance rover has discovered a rock on Mars that may have once hosted microbial life. The rock, nicknamed Cheyava Falls, has chemical compositions and structures that could have been formed by ancient life, but non-biological processes cannot yet… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. NASA is looking for innovative methods that could help retrieve samples collected by the Perseverance rover on Mars in the future. The rover, which landed on Mars in February 2021, is collecting samples from Jezero… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. NASA is looking for innovative methods that could help retrieve samples collected by the Perseverance rover on Mars in the future. The rover, which landed on Mars in February 2021, is collecting samples from Jezero… Read More »
Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, Sign up for free here. As humans, we like to “dare great things.” This is the motto of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, taken from a quote by Theodore Roosevelt. As a species… Read More »
Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, Sign up for free here. As humans, we like to “dare great things.” This is the motto of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, taken from a quote by Theodore Roosevelt. As a species… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter mission, which completed 72 historic flights on Mars in three years, has ended. Originally designed as an experiment, Ingenuity took off on April 19, 2021, becoming the first aircraft to operate and… Read More »