NASA's Perseverance robot, depicted here landing on the Martian dunes, used its cutting-edge cameras to image what could be the first evidence of life ever detected ...

Billions of years ago, Mars’ Jezero Crater held a lake fed by rivers that could have carried minerals and maybe even organic matter. On Earth, places like that are teeming with microbial life. NOVA is ...

When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned its samples from the asteroid Bennu in late 2023, it revealed a surprising find: molecules associated with life, like amino acids and nucleobases, were present ...

NASA joins ESA's ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover mission to Mars, guaranteeing launch in 2028 to search for life on the Red ...

geological signatures indicate that around 3.4 billion years ago, a connected oceanic system existed on a planetary scale, ...

A mudstone sample from Jezero Crater shows textures and minerals that on Earth often form through microbial activity. Scientists caution that nonbiological processes could also explain the features, ...

In November 2011, NASA launched a space mission to explore the planet Mars through a vehicle known as Curiosity. After a long ...

NASA's plan to retrieve as many as 30 geological samples from Mars is getting a major rewrite, agency officials said on Monday. The initial plan, which would not return the samples to Earth until 2040 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential ...

Mars is absolutely dripping with evidence that the red planet was once a striking blue, complete with glistening lakes, ...

It looks like NASA's Mars Sample Return mission has come to a bureaucratic end. The mission was to be the crowning ...