You’ve probably followed the Mars rover missions on and off for years, watching those red-dust landscapes scroll across your ...

Why it matters: While not evidence of life, these discoveries show that ancient Mars had complex organic chemistry, ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has spent roughly six months exploring a geological feature on Mars known as boxwork: a vast network of low rock ridges, about 3–6 feet (1–2 meters) tall, crisscrossing the ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has discovered tiny mineral nodules on Mars that suggest groundwater persisted on the planet much longer than previously believed, expanding the window during which microbial ...

Strange spiderweb-like ridges on Mars may reveal groundwater lasted longer than scientists thought.

NASA’s Curiosity rover has spent six months exploring the site to investigate if they are a clue to the presence of water.

Scientists may be one step closer in their hunt for signs of past life on Mars after the Curiosity rover's latest find.

“This finding by Perseverance …is the closest we have ever come to discovering life on Mars,” said acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy in a statement. “The identification of a potential biosignature ...

A new NASA analysis concludes that it is "reasonable to hypothesize" that living things could have formed the odd organic ...

Samples taken from an ancient Mars rock may indicate that ancient life once existed on the Red Planet, according to a study ...

The discovery is based on previous Curiosity findings revealed since 2018 about basic organics found on Mars though the ...

Mars’ frozen ice caps may be time capsules for ancient life. Lab experiments show that key building blocks of proteins can survive tens of millions of years in pure ice, even under relentless cosmic ...