Scientists may be one step closer in their hunt for signs of past life on Mars after the Curiosity rover's latest find.

NASA’s long search for liquid water on Mars has produced its most significant result yet: evidence of vast reservoirs buried deep in fractured rock beneath the planet’s surface. The finding, drawn ...

Taking a new look at a very old mudstone on Mars, scientists believe they have found a potential biosignature, indicating that Mars may have once hosted life. In July of 2024, while exploring an old, ...

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

Mars is full of surprises, but this one had scientists leaning closer to their multi-monitor arrays: a rock, about 31 inches across, sitting alone in a field of fractured bedrock in a region called ...

A rock found on Mars contains substances that could have been produced by ancient microbes that were once alive, NASA said Wednesday. The NASA rover Perseverance found the rock, named “Cheyava Falls,” ...

Minerals linked to microbial processes on Earth found in riverbed rock A rock sample collected by NASA’s Perseverance rover from an ancient riverbed in Jezero Crater may contain the strongest evidence ...

Is there life on Mars? Or maybe just a turtle? A bizarre picture taken by a rover on the Red Planet appears to show what looks like a distinctive shelled reptile. NASA's Perseverance robot spotted the ...

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, ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover may have stumbled on a visitor from outer space – a strange, shiny rock on Mars that scientists think could be a meteorite forged in the heart of an ancient asteroid.