NASA's plans for Mars sample return are effectively cancelled as part of a bill approved by the U.S. Congress, ending efforts ...

When the Perseverance rover landed in Mars’s Jezero crater—a formation that long ago was Jezero lake—in February, 2021 it turned west. West is where the riverbeds, the deltas, the sites of ancient ...

Mars is no longer just a story about a single lost ocean or one fleeting window for biology. Taken together, recent rover results and orbital studies now point to a planet that may have been welcoming ...

Hints of ancient microbes in Martian rocks and a revived theory about our cosmic ancestry are forcing scientists to rethink where the story of life really began. Instead of a warm little pond on early ...

Scientists at NASA said Mars may have been able to support life and that the Mars Rover program has found rocks that may contain evidence of something living on the red planet. A new study published ...

Mars-like shock and chemical stress reveal ribonucleoprotein condensates as a key survival mechanism in yeast. Life on Mars, ...

We could be one step closer to proving alien existence. In 1996, a group of NASA scientists made a stunning announcement: The discovery of what appeared to be bacterial fossils on Mars. President Bill ...

Scientists propose using ice as a building material for Mars habitats, offering protection from radiation while allowing ...