A planetary scientist walks through the sensors and systems that went into the recent detection of potential biosignatures.

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

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

In fairness to the Perseverance rover, this is exactly what it was built for. Nicknamed Percy, the machine was sent to Jezero ...

"The fact that we captured the aurora again demonstrates that our method for predicting aurorae on Mars and capturing them ...

Potential signs of microbial life were found in a rock sample collected by the rover in 2024 from an ancient dry riverbed on ...

Scientists believe intriguing leopard spots on a rock sampled by the Perseverance rover on Mars may have potentially been ...

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

Detailed analysis of images of speckled rocks found by NASA’s Perseverance rover has found a “potential biosignature.” ...

An uncrewed mission called Artemis 1 flew around the moon and back again in 2022. Four astronauts aim to do the same next ...

Martian mudstones contain features that NASA says are the "clearest sign of life" yet on Mars, according to new findings from ...

After a year of scientific scrutiny, a rock sample collected by the Perseverance rover has been confirmed to contain a potential biosignature. The sample is the best candidate so far to provide ...