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

Some planets may block transmissions to and from Earth from being seen by alien observers, but scientists have cracked how to avoid the issue altogether.

The search for life on Mars reached its most promising breakthrough yet after NASA revealed new findings of possible ancient ...

After years of searching, NASA’s Perseverance rover has discovered some polka-dotted rocks that may provide the strongest evidence yet of Martian life, per a groundbreaking study published in the ...

Did NASA find life on Mars? What NASA has found may be the strongest evidence yet that ancient microbial life once existed on ...

For decades, the search for alien intelligence has revolved around the question: if someone out there is listening, how could ...

There are quite a few other places we might find life in the solar system, including dwarf planets like Ceres. Ceres is ...

Sapphire Canyon, a rock sample collected by NASA’s Mars rover, may hold the clearest evidence yet of ancient life on Mars.

"Considering the direction and frequency of our most common signals gives insights into where we should be looking to improve ...

In The Martians, journalist David Baron recounts scientific and public debate over purported intelligent life on the Red Planet.

I/ATLAS is a fast, ancient interstellar object. Its odd features fuel both scientific study and speculation. On July 1, astronomers detected a strange, fast-moving object racing toward the Sun. Named ...

It was based on the work of Percival Lowell, a professor who was convinced Mars contained a series of irrigation canals built ...