NASA’s long search for liquid water on Mars has produced its most significant result yet: evidence of vast reservoirs buried ...

The discovery is based on previous Curiosity findings revealed since 2018 about basic organics found on Mars though the quantity of such findings is comparatively huge this time.

NASA’s Curiosity rover has uncovered some of the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars, and scientists say ordinary geology may not fully explain them.

Scientists studying a rock sample collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover have uncovered something tantalizing: the largest ...

The strongest hints yet that Mars once hosted living microbes are no longer theoretical models or ambiguous chemistry. They are etched into a single, oddly speckled rock in an ancient riverbed, where ...

A 3.5-billion-year old rock discovered on the Red Planet is "the closest we've come to discovering ancient life on Mars," according to NASA. Potential signs of microbial life were found in a rock ...

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Composed of 18 images, this mosaic shows a boulder field on "Mount Washburn" in Jezero Crater on Mars. The photos were taken by NASA's Perseverance Mars in May of 2024. File Photo by NASA/UPI Sept. 10 ...

In the last ten years, researchers have started to characterize Mars less as a perpetually frozen desert and more as a planet that went through a tremendously ...

“This finding by Perseverance …is the closest we have ever come to discovering life on Mars,” said acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy in a statement. “The identification of a potential biosignature ...

Samples collected from a rock dubbed “Cheyava Falls” contain a structure that hints at the possibility of having a biological origin, according to the space agency, but more research needs to be ...

Mars, the planet we see today—arid, cold, and covered in red dust—may have once been a "blue planet" with a vast ocean that covered the entire Northern Hemisphere.