Mars is no longer just a story about a single lost ocean or one fleeting window for biology. Taken together, recent rover ...

For decades, scientists have imagined Martian life as something that might look faintly familiar, perhaps microbes not so ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

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, ...

American space agency NASA said the Perseverance rover is good to go on Mars until at least 2031, both hardware and software ...

In the new research, Goudz and his team combined decades of data from Mars orbiters with ancient maps of valleys, lake beds, ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Roger Wiens has been a Mars explorer since he was 11 years old. He grew up as a kid looking through a telescope at The Red Planet with his brother and sketching its features. “That was ...

This morning NASA released data collected by the Curiosity Rover, which landed on Mars in August 2012, supporting the possibility of ancient life on Mars “A fundamental question for this mission is ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has now collected two rock samples, with signs that they were in contact with water for a long period of time boosting the case for ancient life on the Red Planet. A new ...