More than five years into its mission, NASA's Mars Perseverance rover is still ambling across the surface of the red planet, ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover finds possible biological traces in Martian rocks — the strongest hint yet that life may have ...

Scientists suspect iron meteorites might be able to resist erosion on Mars, which may explain why some appear perched on flat ground rather than embedded in craters. In other cases, a crater may have ...

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, ...

New research indicates that early Martian volcanoes may have emitted reactive sulfur gases that warmed the planet and supported conditions suitable for microbial life. Although scientists are still ...

Space fans are over the moon about a major discovery on Mars - however, they don't know what it is quite yet. There's a lot of speculation after NASA tweeted they'll be telling us on Monday that a ...

Billions of years ago, Mars’ Jezero Crater held a lake fed by rivers that could have carried minerals and maybe even organic matter. On Earth, places like that are teeming with microbial life. NOVA is ...