Learn why scientists are cautiously optimistic about the potential biosignatures found in the Sapphire Canyon rock sample.

NASA has found potential signs of life on Mars, the agency said last Wednesday. Although additional scientific study is ...

"We're kind of one step closer to answering one of humanity's most profound questions ... are we truly alone in the universe?

Google expanded its online mapping service to a third celestial body last week with ASU's help. Programmers from ASU's Mars Space Flight Facility worked with the search engine to load composite images ...

Earlier evidence pointing to ancient microbial life on the red planet hasn’t held up.

Nasa’s Perseverance Rover has collected unusual reddish rocks thought to be billions of years old that present some of the ...

NASA’s other rover, Perseverance, landed in the Jezero Crater on February 18, 2021, to search for signs of ancient life and collect rock samples for a future return to Earth.

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

After years of searching, NASA’s Perseverance rover has discovered some polka-dotted rocks that may provide the strongest ...

Using data from NASA’s retired InSight lander, two separate teams of researchers found evidence of a sluggish Martian mantle ...

On the Red Planet, aurorae glow green because the charged particles collide with oxygen atoms high above Mars. They may be ...

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