For years, scientists staring at Mars through the eyes of orbiting spacecraft noticed something strange: a mysterious signal in the light spectrum that didn’t match any known mineral. That puzzling ...

Raw, unfiltered passion, instinctual self-preservation, warrior energy, and an unwavering desire to achieve our goals—these are the qualities of Mars. As the planet of ambition, drive, sexuality, and ...

Perseverance rover data shows Jezero Crater once held a calm lake, leaving behind mudstones rich in organic-linked minerals. The presence of iron-phosphate and iron-sulfide nodules suggests processes ...

“The presence of this mineral puts a lot more nuance on what was going on,” said Mario Parente, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at UMass Amherst and one of the paper’s ...

SpaceX’s Elon Musk says he will rocket Optimus bots on the first Starships sent to Mars, but a leading robotics scholar predicts their space odyssey will be short-lived.

If it pans out, it may complicate Elon Musk’s dreams of founding a settlement on the fourth planet from the sun.

Because all earthly life shares a common origin, finding a second tree of life would forever change humanity’s understanding of ourselves.

It's not the first time there have been claims of signs of life on Mars, so why are scientists particularly thrilled now?

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

But the claim that NASA announced found life on Mars was false. NASA announced it found promising evidence of potential ancient life on the planet, but more research was needed before scientists could ...

According to the work of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and a key analysis by scientists at Imperial College London, a number of minerals and organic substances have been ...