In a scientific breakthrough with cosmic implications, researchers have, for the first time, precisely dated the emergence of ...

NASA has created a flyover animation of an impact crater on Mars that was captured using the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera. Credit: NASA/JPL- ...

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

78 million years ago, a 1.6 km asteroid slammed into what is now Finland, creating a crater 23 km (14 mi) wide and 750 m deep ...

Scientists have discovered that microbial life colonised the Lappajarvi impact crater in Finland shortly after a massive ...

Spots on rocks on Mars offer the “clearest evidence” yet that ancient life once thrived on the Red Planet, Nasa has said.

After a catastrophic asteroid impact 78 million years ago, life didn't just survive—it thrived, at least according to new ...

The Rosalind Franklin mission's chance of finding evidence of past life on Mars has been boosted by two studies that show ...

NASA's Perseverance robot spotted the intriguing rock on Aug. 31 and stopped to snap a photograph. It was exploring Jezero ...

Roger Wiens has been a Mars explorer since he was 11 years old. He now leads the SuperCam instrument team on NASA’s Mars ...