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

The news: NASA's Perseverance rover had found potential signs of ancient microbial life on Mars. The discovery represents "the closest we have ever come to discovering life on Mars," NASA acting ...

For four years, a lone robot sat on the dusty plains of Mars, listening. The InSight lander, a three-legged marvel of engineering, was sent to take the Red Planet’s pulse. There’s not much happening ...

The Perseverance rover’s new findings set the stage for bringing Martian samples back to Earth to test whether microbes once ...

May 12 -- When two rovers are launched to Mars this June, one thing NASA engineers hope they'll never have to confront is silence. It was a painful silence that set in at Mission Control last February ...

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological and archaeological objects in New York on Wednesday, while a juvenile dinosaur skeleton ...

A distant exoplanet might have an atmosphere similar to Earth's, early observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggest. It is part of a group of planets orbiting a star called TRAPPIST ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. New research suggests that most of the solar system's inner rocky planets once orbited the sun in ...

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological and archaeological objects in New York on Wednesday. But a rare young dinosaur skeleton ...

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The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological and archaeological objects in New York on Wednesday, while a juvenile dinosaur skeleton ...

A bidder here on Earth shelled out a lot of green for a piece of the red planet on Wednesday when Sotheby's put a Martian meteorite up for auction. NWA 16788, the largest piece of Mars on Earth, was ...