In June, 2024, Perseverance, a NASA rover sent to collect samples on the surface of Mars, came upon a cluster of rocks in what is thought to be a former riverbed. Most of the rocks were identified as ...

NASA’s latest Mars findings have pushed the search for ancient life from speculation into a disciplined, data-rich debate ...

A groundbreaking study has revealed that ice on Mars could preserve traces of ancient life for up to 50 million years. This discovery offers new hope for detecting long-lost microbial remnants on the ...

The search for life on Mars dates back about five decades, and a Sept. 10 announcement marks perhaps the most dramatic advancement yet. The news: NASA's Perseverance rover had found potential signs of ...

One small step for man, one giant step to discovering Martiankind. After years of searching, NASA’s Perseverance rover has discovered some polka-dotted rocks that may provide the strongest evidence ...

Was there ever life on Mars? Planetary scientists think there could have been but there hasn’t been any direct evidence. After years of roaming... NASA just dropped the most convincing evidence for ...

Has NASA found life on Mars? In a word, no. But last year, NASA’s Perseverance rover found signs in an ancient rock that could point to life having existed on the Red Planet billions of years ago. And ...

"This is the moment where the metal detector has gone off and you've dug up something shiny. You still need to find out exactly what you've got — but you've got something to work with." Mars hasn't ...

Recently, NASA announced that the Mars Perseverance rover has found indications that life may have at one time existed on the Red Planet. The announcement did not mark the first time the space agency ...

For this week’s Fault Lines column, Jon Allsop is filling in for Jay Caspian Kang. In 1877, Giovanni Schiaparelli, an Italian astronomer (and uncle of the fashion icon Elsa), started making a map of ...

Experiments show that biomolecules trapped in pure ice could withstand the harsh radiation of Mars for tens of millions of years. If life ever existed on Mars, traces of it might still be frozen ...