The most enthralling rock yet found on Mars—a speckled hunk of mudstone that just may contain evidence of ancient alien life—is still worth getting excited about. The rock in question is packed with ...

Ever since humans gazed at the night sky, we’ve been drawn to that tiny reddish dot hovering above. Mars has captivated our ...

The ‘clearest sign of life on Mars’ yet has been discovered, Nasa revealed today. The US space agency has spent three decades combing the rust-red desert of our cosmic neighbour for signs of life, ...

The Perseverance rover's discovery of a potential biosignature found on a sedimentary rock on Mars is an exciting development in our search for life elsewhere in the universe, but how does it rank ...

They’re not completely sure. They never are. But this time, they’re pretty sure. Or, at the very least, sure enough to alert the media. Scientists monitoring the Perseverance Mars rover mission have ...

The search for life on Mars dates back about five decades, and a Sept. 10 announcement marks perhaps the most dramatic advancement yet. The news: NASA's Perseverance rover had found potential signs of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential ...

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Seán Jordan receives funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 1101114969) and from Research ...

Is there life on other planets? It's one of the enduring questions of our lifetime, and space agencies like NASA are closer than ever to definitively figuring out what -- if anything -- thrives beyond ...