The most enthralling rock yet found on Mars—a speckled hunk of mudstone that just may contain evidence of ancient alien ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover made a thrilling discovery on Mars: a rock sample containing minerals that on Earth are tied to ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover detects potential biosignatures in Jezero Crater sample Discovery published in Nature marks closest ...

Until recently, we could only study geology by looking at rocks on Earth and the Moon —well, and the rare meteor or two that ...

Research led by NASA suggests a habitable past on Mars based on the discovery of minerals in Martian rocks associated with ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has detected compelling evidence of potential past life on Mars within Jezero Crater. The rover's analysis of a mudstone cor ...

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

The discovery in Jezero Crater represents one of the best pieces of evidence to date about the possibility that Earth's ...

The agency’s scientists are still not saying they found fossils of Martian microbes, but analysis of the specimen collected ...

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

Potential signs of microbial life were found in a rock sample collected by the rover in 2024 from an ancient dry riverbed on Mars' Jezero Crater -- an area of rocky outcrops on the edges the Neretva ...

While Mars today only has a wispy remnant of an atmosphere, it may once have had one hundreds of times thicker with a ...