NASA’s Perseverance rover has delivered its most compelling clue yet in the search for life on Mars. A rock sample called ...

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 ...

Researchers who examined data from Perseverance found that the rocks contained organics that could have been the precursors ...

"The results reported here can be crucial when down-selecting which samples, if not all, are returned to Earth." ...

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

NASA scientists say a rock sample collected by the Perseverance rover in Jezero Crater may contain the strongest signs yet of ...

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

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

Minerals in the rock might have been produced by microbes in chemical reactions, but researchers say they’ll need to examine ...

Unusual rocks discovered on Mars contain the most tantalising evidence yet of potential past life on the Red Planet. The ...

Ancient organisms may have left microscopic "biosignatures" on Mars. That's according to NASA scientists, who say a rock ...