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

NASA has discovered strong evidence for ancient life on Mars, a potentially groundbreaking finding for humanity. In this ...

NASA's Mars rover Perseverance has uncovered rocks in a dry river channel that may hold potential signs of ancient microscopic life, scientists reported Wednesday. They stressed that in-depth analysis ...

Over four years since it landed on Mars, NASA's Perseverance Rover might have made serious headway in its mission to find signs of ancient microbial life on the planet. Last July, the autonomous ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover, now five years into its mission on Mars, has already traveled nearly 25 miles (40 kilometers) ...

NASA made a big splash today, announcing that its Mars Perseverance rover had spotted “potential biosignatures” last year while examining a rock covered in unusual spots. It was a compelling finding, ...

A long time ago, life left microscopic signatures on Mars — or did it? That's the question NASA scientists have worked for years to answer. On Wednesday, NASA researchers said the answer might be in a ...

Did NASA really just announce the existence of aliens? Not quite. Here's what the new evidence uncovered on Mars really means. NASA's Perseverance rover has uncovered what could be evidence that Mars ...

When the Perseverance rover landed in Mars’s Jezero crater—a formation that long ago was Jezero lake—in February, 2021 it turned west. West is where the riverbeds, the deltas, the sites of ancient ...

The potential for sending payloads and people to Mars is therefore becoming plausible in a way that it never has before. Mars ...

NASA announced it found promising potential biosignatures on Mars. Potential biosignatures are things like chemicals and structures that could be a result of life on the planet, but more research was ...