"The idea was for our payload to get us just up to the potential biosignature designation and have the rest of the story told ...

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

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

NASA's search for evidence of past life on Mars just produced an exciting update. On Sept. 10, 2025, a team of scientists ...

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

NASA has long been searching for definitive signs of life on Mars, and it seems like NASA’s Perseverance rover has found the ...

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

"When we see features like this in sediment on Earth, these minerals are often the byproduct of microbial metabolisms that ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover detects potential biosignatures in Jezero Crater sample Discovery published in Nature marks closest ...

This animation depicts water disappearing over time in the Martian river valley Neretva Vallis, where NASA’s Perseverance ...

After a year of scientific scrutiny, a rock sample collected by the Perseverance rover has been confirmed to contain a potential biosignature. The sample is the best candidate so far to provide ...