NASA scientists and administrators gathered this week to share their analysis of a Martian rock sample collected by the Perseverance rover in July 2024.

A sample collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover from a dry riverbed in Jezero Crater could preserve evidence of ancient microbial life.

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A research team outlines how it identified and bestowed a moniker upon a previously unexplored 500 million-year-old Grand Canyon formation: The Frenchman Mountain Dolostone. The newly named rock layer ...

The Grand Canyon may be much older than widely believed, according to a new study that challenges the view that the American landmark was born 5 million or 6 million years ago. Analyzing helium levels ...

Ivo Lucchitta, emeritus scientist, USGS, research associate, Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Ariz. Richard Young, professor, geological sciences, State University of New York, Geneseo Geneseo, ...