Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to ...

Mars once had sprawling river systems that rivaled major watersheds on Earth, and scientists have now identified the biggest ...

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

On some Mars images, Olympus Mons does not look dramatic at first glance. It sits there quietly, a wide pale rise against ...

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft has just taken its milestone 100,000th photo of the Red Planet using its ...

A newly identified region on Mars may hold the key to future human landings. Researchers found evidence of water ice less ...

Early Mars seems to have had a protective atmosphere and liquid water in the form of oceans, rivers, and lakes. It may also ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is continuing its mission to collect samples despite uncertainty about when or if those ...

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

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

Until now, scientists believed that Mars’ skylights – pits in the surface of mars – were formed by volcanic activity. But ...