Learn why scientists are cautiously optimistic about the potential biosignatures found in the Sapphire Canyon rock sample.

After years of searching, NASA’s Perseverance rover has discovered some polka-dotted rocks that may provide the strongest ...

A NASA-backed study reveals that signals from Earth's spacecraft communications could be detectable by alien civilizations.

The search for life on Mars reached its most promising breakthrough yet after NASA revealed new findings of possible ancient ...

Recently, in a “wild” new spin on the theory, known as directed panspermia, it’s been suggested that “aliens sent microbes or ...

Strange 'leopard spot' markings have been found on a 3.5 billion year-old Martian rock with NASA saying they could be the ...

To tell a Mars rover to turn left or an orbiter to change focus, mission scientists have to beam powerful transmissions ...

The Perseverance rover’s new findings set the stage for bringing Martian samples back to Earth to test whether microbes once ...

There are quite a few other places we might find life in the solar system, including dwarf planets like Ceres. Ceres is ...

Tracing the history of our obsession with Mars, from modern efforts to colonize to belief in a Martian civilization.

Impact history should be considered a key factor in the search for habitable Earth-like exoplanets. Southwest Research ...