The strongest hints yet that Mars once hosted living microbes are no longer theoretical models or ambiguous chemistry. They are etched into a single, oddly speckled rock in an ancient riverbed, where ...

The discovery suggests that parts of Mars may once have supported tropical-like climates, complete with heavy, sustained rainfall.

We could be one step closer to proving alien existence. In 1996, a group of NASA scientists made a stunning announcement: The discovery of what appeared to be bacterial fossils on Mars. President Bill ...

NASA’s rover Perseverance spent nearly a year exploring the rim of a crater believed to have held a huge lake.

Over four years since it landed on Mars, NASA's Perseverance Rover might have made serious headway in its mission to find signs of ancient microbial life on the planet. Last July, the autonomous ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover discovered chemical patterns on Mars that may indicate ancient microbial life.

NASA's plans for Mars sample return are effectively cancelled as part of a bill approved by the U.S. Congress, ending efforts to collect Perseverance rover samples that could contain evidence of alien ...

In November 2011, NASA launched a space mission to explore the planet Mars through a vehicle known as Curiosity. After a long ...

Bright white rocks spotted by NASA’s Perseverance rover are rewriting what we thought we knew about ancient Mars. These ...

Is there life on Mars? Well, there's Claude in the machine Anthropic's Claude machine learning model has boldly planned what ...

Minerals linked to microbial processes on Earth found in riverbed rock A rock sample collected by NASA’s Perseverance rover from an ancient riverbed in Jezero Crater may contain the strongest evidence ...

Bright white rocks found by NASA’s Perseverance rover hint at ancient Martian rain lasting millions of years, raising new questions about how wet Mars once was and what those conditions might mean.