The Perseverance Rover has samples of potential ancient life on the planet. The challenge is getting them back to Earth.

Jezero Crater on Mars was once home to a lake, delta and rivers. See an animation of what it could have looked like when ...

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

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

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

The NASA and ESA Mars Sample Return mission will send bits of the Red Planet collected by the Perseverance rover to Earth.

Viking consisted of two twin orbiters and landers, with experimental chambers in the landers to conduct three biology ...

Tides come from a difference in gravity across an object. The force of gravity exerted by the Moon is about 4% stronger on the side of Earth that faces toward the Moon, compared to the opposite side ...

A sample collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover from an ancient dry riverbed in Jezero Crater could preserve evidence of ...

Over four years since it landed on Mars, NASA's Perseverance Rover might have made serious headway in its mission to find signs of ancient microbial life on the planet.

Since its discovery, astronomers have been frantically trying to gather as much information as they can about the newest ...

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