New research using NASA's Perseverance rover has uncovered strong evidence that Mars' Jezero Crater experienced multiple ...

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.

NASA’s Perseverance rover may have found ancient life on Mars—echoing decades of alien movies warning us not to underestimate ...

Images and measurements from NASA’s Perseverance rover indicate that recently identified rocks in Jezero Crater are composed of mudstones containing organic carbon. According to a study published in ...

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A new study co-authored by Texas A&M University geologist Dr. Michael Tice has revealed potential chemical signatures of ...

A biosignature is any characteristic, element, molecule, substance or feature that serves as evidence for past or present life. It must be something that cannot be produced without life. Some examples ...

Research led by NASA suggests a habitable past on Mars based on the discovery of minerals in Martian rocks associated with ...

“This finding by Perseverance …is the closest we have ever come to discovering life on Mars,” said acting NASA administrator ...

NASA released an image of the rock - a very fine-grained, rusty-red mudstone - bearing ring-shaped features resembling leopard spots and dark marks resembling poppy seeds. Those features may have been ...

A new article published in the journal Nature has provided the most compelling evidence to date for the existence of ancient ...