Mars is no longer just a story about a single lost ocean or one fleeting window for biology. Taken together, recent rover ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

NASA has discovered strong evidence for ancient life on Mars, a potentially groundbreaking finding for humanity. In this ...

Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to ...

NASA's Mars rover Perseverance has uncovered rocks in a dry river channel that may hold potential signs of ancient microscopic life, scientists reported Wednesday. They stressed that in-depth analysis ...

Over four years since it landed on Mars, NASA's Perseverance Rover might have made serious headway in its mission to find signs of ancient microbial life on the planet. Last July, the autonomous ...

A long time ago, life left microscopic signatures on Mars — or did it? That's the question NASA scientists have worked for years to answer. On Wednesday, NASA researchers said the answer might be in a ...

NASA made a big splash today, announcing that its Mars Perseverance rover had spotted “potential biosignatures” last year while examining a rock covered in unusual spots. It was a compelling finding, ...

Did NASA really just announce the existence of aliens? Not quite. Here's what the new evidence uncovered on Mars really means. NASA's Perseverance rover has uncovered what could be evidence that Mars ...

When the Perseverance rover landed in Mars’s Jezero crater—a formation that long ago was Jezero lake—in February, 2021 it turned west. West is where the riverbeds, the deltas, the sites of ancient ...

Samples collected from a rock dubbed “Cheyava Falls” contain a structure that hints at the possibility of having a biological origin, according to the space agency, but more research needs to be ...

NASA announced it found promising potential biosignatures on Mars. Potential biosignatures are things like chemicals and structures that could be a result of life on the planet, but more research was ...