The Perseverance Mars rover poses against a dramatic backdrop of ancient Martian terrain in a new selfie. When you purchase ...

The microbe was gathered from the agency's clean rooms, where experts build spacecraft in carefully controlled environments.

Mars’ frozen ice caps may be time capsules for ancient life. Lab experiments show that key building blocks of proteins can survive tens of millions of years in pure ice, even under relentless cosmic ...

I set the New Scientist Book Club something of a challenge in April: make your way through the 600-plus pages of Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson’s doorstopper of a novel, in just 30 days, and then tell ...

A fungus pulled from NASA cleanrooms kept surviving tests that were meant to mimic nearly every stage of a trip to Mars. That does not mean Mars is about to be seeded with Earth life. However, the ...

A top Nashville musician, he played on Bob Dylan’s “I Want You,” Roy Orbison’s “Oh, Pretty Woman” and Dolly Parton’s “Jolene.” By Bill Friskics-Warren Bill Friskics-Warren writes about popular music ...

Researchers found geological features that suggest a massive ocean once covered a third of the planet. NASA's Curiosity rover discovered seven organic molecules never before seen on Mars. These ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The molecules were found inside 3.5-billion-year-old sandstone. NASA's Curiosity rover collected the clay-filled rocks from an area called ...

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has spent more than 13 years exploring the 3.5-billion-year-old Gale crater, slowly climbing a central mound known as Mount Sharp. Satellite data suggest this formation may ...