NASA’s latest Mars findings have pushed the search for ancient life from speculation into a disciplined, data-rich debate ...

NASA's second CHAPEA mission simulates life on Mars, studying the effects of isolation and limited resources on human health and teamwork.

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captured this image of a rocky area nicknamed “Cheyava Falls” on July 18, 2024, showing black “poppy seed” and larger “leopard spot” features. Researchers say a sample ...

Skylights, openings in the surface of Mars that descend down into caves, have been found on Mars, along with signatures for ...

NASA announced it found promising potential biosignatures on Mars. Potential biosignatures are things like chemicals and structures that could be a result of life on the planet, but more research was ...

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 ...

When the Perseverance rover landed in Mars’s Jezero crater—a formation that long ago was Jezero lake—in February, 2021 it turned west. West is where the riverbeds, the deltas, the sites of ancient ...

Recently, NASA announced that the Mars Perseverance rover has found indications that life may have at one time existed on the Red Planet. The announcement did not mark the first time the space agency ...

B REMEN, Germany — NASA will help Europe get its long-delayed Mars life-hunting ExoMars rover off the ground, even though ...

A long time ago, life left microscopic signatures on Mars — or did it? That's the question NASA scientists have worked for years to answer. On Wednesday, NASA researchers said the answer might be in a ...