NASA’s discovery of potential evidence of ancient life on Mars means “our galaxy could be teeming with life,” says a ...

Mars is an inhospitable desert planet. Billions of years ago, things were different. In Jezero Crater, for example, fed by a ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover faced a tense situation on Mars when its drill bit became lodged in a layer of rock, delaying its ...

A mudstone sample from Jezero Crater shows textures and minerals that on Earth often form through microbial activity. Scientists caution that nonbiological processes could also explain the features, ...

A groundbreaking study has revealed that ice on Mars could preserve traces of ancient life for up to 50 million years. This discovery offers new hope for detecting long-lost microbial remnants on the ...

Scientists discovered that baker’s yeast can survive harsh Mars-like conditions, revealing how simple life forms adapt under ...

An international team of researchers has published a report on how Mars samples should be handled from a scientific point of ...

Blocks of frozen carbon dioxide sliding down Martian dunes may have carved the planet’s strange gullies, mimicking the work ...

The findings may redefine the known boundaries of life on Earth and offer a model for what microbial life might look like on ...