When astronauts set foot on Mars, it will be one of humanity’s greatest milestones, marking the start of a new era of ...

"The detection of life on Mars is a persistent top priority for explorers of many disciplines, and it is the top science ...

A major new study lays out plans for crewed missions to Mars, with the search for extraterrestrial life being a top priority ...

The search for life on Mars dates back about five decades, and a Sept. 10 announcement marks perhaps the most dramatic advancement yet. The news: NASA's Perseverance rover had found potential signs of ...

In June, 2024, Perseverance, a NASA rover sent to collect samples on the surface of Mars, came upon a cluster of rocks in what is thought to be a former riverbed. Most of the rocks were identified as ...

A groundbreaking study has revealed that ice on Mars could preserve traces of ancient life for up to 50 million years. This discovery offers new hope for detecting long-lost microbial remnants on the ...

One small step for man, one giant step to discovering Martiankind. After years of searching, NASA’s Perseverance rover has discovered some polka-dotted rocks that may provide the strongest evidence ...

NASA’s latest Mars findings have pushed the search for ancient life from speculation into a disciplined, data-rich debate about what once happened in the planet’s vanished lakes and rivers. The ...

The rover’s science instruments found that the formation’s sedimentary rocks are composed of clay and silt, which, on Earth, are excellent preservers of past microbial life. The findings were made ...

For this week’s Fault Lines column, Jon Allsop is filling in for Jay Caspian Kang. In 1877, Giovanni Schiaparelli, an Italian astronomer (and uncle of the fashion icon Elsa), started making a map of ...

Experiments show that biomolecules trapped in pure ice could withstand the harsh radiation of Mars for tens of millions of years. If life ever existed on Mars, traces of it might still be frozen ...