The Rosalind Franklin mission's chance of finding evidence of past life on Mars has been boosted by two studies that show ...

Astronomers have struggled to explain why a long and thin cloud forms above Mars’s Arsia Mons volcano each year, until now ...

"The idea was for our payload to get us just up to the potential biosignature designation and have the rest of the story told ...

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“This finding by Perseverance …is the closest we have ever come to discovering life on Mars,” said acting NASA administrator ...

Research led by NASA suggests a habitable past on Mars based on the discovery of minerals in Martian rocks associated with ...

Mars’ Jezero Crater holds signs of ancient water and strange mineral reactions, some linked with organic compounds. With ...

Prize: NASA could offer a prize—say $3 billion to the first company and $1 billion to a second company—for delivering ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover — built and managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge — collected a ...

Was there ever life on Mars? Planetary scientists think there could have been but there hasn’t been any direct evidence.

An exciting discovery on Mars is being overshadowed by turmoil at NASA, with budget cuts threatening to destroy a scientific ...

Potential signs of microbial life were found in a rock sample collected by the rover in 2024 from an ancient dry riverbed on ...