Since February 2021, NASA's Perseverance rover has been exploring a region on Mars known as Jezero Crater, a huge cavity believed to have once hosted a lake. It's considered one of the most promising places to look for evidence of ancient life on the Red Planet (life as we know it, at least) — and there has been an update in the search.

On Wednesday (Sept. 10), researchers presented a study that describes how Perseverance found intriguing minerals on the western edge of Jezero Crater earlier this year, in the clay-rich, mudstone rocks of a valley called "Neretva Vallis." Here on Earth, these minerals are typically associated with organic matter. So, could this mean we've finally found proof of aliens? Well, not quite. The authors stress that further analysis is necessary to identify the t

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