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 ...

With ally SpaceX, the Italian Space Agency is set to chart and safeguard future astronaut flights to Mars while testing tech ...

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

A rock found last year on the surface of Mars offered tantalising evidence that life once existed on the Red Planet. Now ...

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