An arrowhead-shaped rock on Mars sporting features that may hint at ancient microbial activity on the Red Planet has left ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered high-purity quartz crystals on Mars, a discovery that could reshape the search for ...

The intriguing chemistry of a rock collected by the Perseverance rover could trace to microbial activity—or not ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover found pale rocks containing kaolinite on Mars, a mineral that forms in warm, wet conditions.

Agency willing to take huge risks with human exploration, but not willing to do it for some dirt? Rocket Lab has been on a roll lately, with multiple Electron launches, plans for an ocean platform for ...

The intriguing chemistry of a rock collected by the Perseverance rover could trace to microbial activity — or not.

Kara Gaiser, a mechanical engineering student at Berkeley from Portland, is researching life support systems on Mars and other locations beyond Earth.

Are subterranean lifeforms viable on Mars? A new interpretation of Martian seismic data by scientists Ikuo Katayama of ...

Scientists have discovered kaolinite mineral on Mars, providing new evidence that the planet was once warm and wet.

Building on a previous study that supported the ancient philosopher Plato’s conjecture—that Earth is mostly made from ...

A new study in the journal Nature Communications reveals that Mars is red for very much the same reason it may have once been home to life — namely, that it was a wet planet. This is in line with ...

"It's like a game of billiards around the solar system, flying by a couple of planets at just the right angle and timing to ...