A pair of new studies presented at the Joint Meeting of the Europlanet Science Congress and the Division for Planetary ...

A lookout point in the foothills of Mount Sharp, a 3-mile-high mountain, allowed the rover to see all the way across Gale Crater 's floor. Near the center of the image is Peace Vallis, an ancient ...

Jezero Crater’s rocks reveal three stages of water activity, shifting from hostile acidic fluids to more life-friendly ...

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

Planetary geologists reply that these impressions usually result from pareidolia, the tendency for the brain to see familiar shapes in random patterns, a tendency Carl Sagan long ago called an ...

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

Scientists believe intriguing leopard spots on a rock sampled by the Perseverance rover on Mars may have potentially been ...

The barren red deserts of Mars might not be as lifeless as they seem. A growing number of researchers are pointing to strange ...

The odds for life existing on other planets has just skyrocketed after a NASA rover unearthed new evidence on Mars. The odds ...

Mars’ Jezero Crater holds signs of ancient water and strange mineral reactions, some linked with organic compounds. With ...

NASA has announced that a sample collected on Mars by its Perseverance rover may contain evidence of ancient microbial life ...

Just over a year ago, Nasa made a remarkable announcement. The Perseverance rover had found potential signs of ancient life ...