In a quiet corner of an ancient riverbed on Mars, a speckled rock has pushed the search for extraterrestrial life into its ...

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

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

The latest data from NASA’s robotic explorers on Mars has revealed a signal that does not fit neatly into any category ...

This discovery adds a new dimension to the geoscience of Mars and opens up new possibilities for the search for life outside ...

NASA's MAVEN spacecraft, which has orbited Mars since 2014, went quiet abruptly in early December. Efforts to reestablish a ...

MRO used a special maneuver that rolls the spacecraft over 120 degrees. This enhances the power of SHARAD, which is MRO’s ...

"How do you get to Mars when the launch vehicle is not necessarily going to Mars?" ...

Scientists have identified eight mysterious water-shaped caves on Mars, unlike volcanic tunnels, raising fresh hopes these ...

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Scientists have discovered 26 new bacterial species that survived the extreme sterilization protocols of NASA cleanrooms ...