Jezero Crater’s rocks reveal three stages of water activity, shifting from hostile acidic fluids to more life-friendly ...

NASA has found potential signs of life on Mars, the agency said last Wednesday. Although additional scientific study is ...

Scientists at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration caused a stir last week when they announced they had found ...

NASA’s Mars rover finds organic signals in mudstone that resemble microbial activity, sparking new debate over life on the ...

Potential signs of microbial life were found in a rock sample collected by the rover in 2024 from an ancient dry riverbed on ...

Prize: NASA could offer a prize—say $3 billion to the first company and $1 billion to a second company—for delivering ...

Roger Wiens has been a Mars explorer since he was 11 years old. He now leads the SuperCam instrument team on NASA’s Mars ...

Minerals in the rock might have been produced by microbes in chemical reactions, but researchers say they’ll need to examine ...

The rover carries a drill to penetrate rocks and tubes to hold the samples gathered from places judged most suitable for ...

Martian mudstones contain features that NASA says are the "clearest sign of life" yet on Mars, according to findings from ...

The potential “biosignature” isn’t direct evidence of life itself, but rather a leftover sign that textural features on the ...

Was there ever life on Mars? Planetary scientists think there could have been but there hasn’t been any direct evidence.