NASA’s Mars rover finds organic signals in mudstone that resemble microbial activity, sparking new debate over life on the ...

Roger Wiens has been a Mars explorer since he was 11 years old. He now leads the SuperCam instrument team on NASA’s Mars ...

Earlier evidence pointing to ancient microbial life on the red planet hasn’t held up.

Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from ...

Jezero Crater’s rocks reveal three stages of water activity, shifting from hostile acidic fluids to more life-friendly ...

But the claim that NASA announced found life on Mars was false. NASA announced it found promising evidence of potential ...

In fairness to the Perseverance rover, this is exactly what it was built for. Nicknamed Percy, the machine was sent to Jezero ...

While Mars today only has a wispy remnant of an atmosphere, it may once have had one hundreds of times thicker with a ...

Musk will likely stay committed to the Mars-settlement goal over the long haul, as it has long been a driving force for him ...

Mars is known for its barren desert landscape and dry climate. But two recent studies in the journals Nature and Science go ...

The rover carries a drill to penetrate rocks and tubes to hold the samples gathered from places judged most suitable for ...

In the search for habitable exoplanets, atmospheric conditions play a key role in determining if a planet can sustain liquid ...