In a first for the Perseverance rover, it appears to have found an iron-nickel meteorite near the Jezero Crater.

More than five years into its mission, NASA's Mars Perseverance rover is still ambling across the surface of the red planet, ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has made another strange discovery. While investigating the Vernodden area of Jezero Crater – ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has made a groundbreaking discovery on Mars, identifying a peculiar rock that may be an iron-nickel meteorite. This intriguing find not only highlights the capabilities of ...

The rover utilized its Left Mastcam-Z camera to document this fascinating find during Sol 1629 of the Mars 2020 mission, at a local mean solar time of 12:11:25. Recent analysis using Perseverance's ...

NASA scientists were baffled after uncovering a rock on Mars that didn’t belong there — with a composition pointing to ...

After nearly five years of exploring Mars, NASA's Perseverance has stumbled a rock which has baffled scientists, who claim it ...

This is not the first time an 'alien' rock has been found on Mars. NASA's Curiosity rover previously identified iron–nickel meteorites in Gale Crater, including the one-metre-wide 'Lebanon' in 2014 ...

According to the early analysis with the rover's SuperCam laser and spectrometers, a high concentration of iron and nickel ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has discovered a potential extraterrestrial rock on Mars, possibly originating from deep space.

Scientists suspect iron meteorites might be able to resist erosion on Mars, which may explain why some appear perched on flat ground rather than embedded in craters. In other cases, a crater may have ...

The 80-centimeter (31-inch) wide rock, named “Phippsaksla", stands out from its environment. It was found back on September 2, 2025, using Perseverance's Left Mastcam-Z camera, on Sol 1612, the ...