Perseverance rover data shows Jezero Crater once held a calm lake, leaving behind mudstones rich in organic-linked minerals.

“The presence of this mineral puts a lot more nuance on what was going on,” said Mario Parente, an associate professor of ...

If it pans out, it may complicate Elon Musk’s dreams of founding a settlement on the fourth planet from the sun.

From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of ...

Because all earthly life shares a common origin, finding a second tree of life would forever change humanity’s understanding ...

NASA recently announced that its Perseverance Mars rover discovered rock material containing potential biosignatures, with ...

A mission to bring back samples from Mars would cost billions, so they are staying there, for now, the author writes.

Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst are part of a team that has identified a unique mineral on Mars, described in Nature Communications. Named ferric hydroxysulfate, the mineral ...

As Nasa chooses the six women and four men who could be the first to travel to the Red Planet, some experts believe the ...

The recent finding by NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars—a possible sign of ancient microbial life in the rock nicknamed ...