Steven Benner’s Meet The Neighbors is an intriguing tale of misunderstood planetary biochemistry. Paul Marks is engrossed ...

A new look at more than two decades’ worth of archival data from NASA’s Spirit mission suggests that the Martian soil may ...

More than 20 years after NASA's Spirit rover landed on Mars, a researcher from Edith Cowan University (ECU) has uncovered new ...

Ancient rocks found by NASA's Perseverance rover reveal Mars was repeatedly impacted by asteroids billions of years ago.

In searches for past and present Martian life, some scientists say we’ve been too cautious to see what’s right in front of us ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover collected a rock sample in July 2024 that contained striking light-and-dark markings scientists now ...

Did Viking 1 find evidence of life on Mars? Fifty years after the NASA lander touched down, the jury is still out.

Half a century after the first successful Mars landing, Viking's greatest legacy may be the questions it taught us to ask.

Trump’s $200 Billion Research Reset Funds Scientists, Not University Systems Steve Benner’s Meet the Neighbors makes some bold and fascinating claims. Steve Benner is one of the heavyweights of both ...

The hunt for ancient life on Mars just got an important test run. Scientists confirmed that the Rosalind Franklin rover's sophisticated instrument can detect subtle differences in two stable molecules ...

The Murchison meteorite fell in Australia in 1969, breaking into numerous fragments. It belongs to the carbonaceous chondrite group of meteorites. These meteorites are considered to be particularly ...

What if human exploration inadvertently impacted potential life on Mars? Scientists are now questioning if our rovers and landers may have harmed microbial life before we even discovered it. Billions ...