To be clear, NASA relies on the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR)’s planetary protection policy as the main way it demonstrates compliance with Outer Space Treaty (OST) planetary protection ...

We’re often the first humans to put eyes on those images. We tell Perseverance to reach out, and grind rocks, take pictures, ...

A professor at Birkbeck University has analysed a rock which contains the best evidence yet of Martian life. Dr Keyron ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has recently sparked a renewed fascination in the exploration of Mars, following intriguing findings that suggest the possibility of ancient life on the Red Planet. The rover ...

NASA’s other rover, Perseverance, landed in the Jezero Crater on February 18, 2021, to search for signs of ancient life and collect rock samples for a future return to Earth.

"The results reported here can be crucial when down-selecting which samples, if not all, are returned to Earth." ...

Mars may have released sulfur gases that trapped heat, shaped the climate, and created conditions for ancient life.

One of the studies, led by Dr. Aleksandra Sokołowska of Brown University and Imperial College London, has identified 258 ...

The news: NASA's Perseverance rover had found potential signs of ancient microbial life on Mars. The discovery represents ...

“This very well could be the clearest sign of life that we’ve ever found on Mars, which is incredibly exciting,” Acting NASA ...

A sample collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover from an ancient dry riverbed in Jezero Crater could preserve evidence of ...

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