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 ...

Tiny fossils from Earth’s deep past may reveal when cellular complexity first emerged. Their survival could reshape both ...

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 ...

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.

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 recent news is that NASA’S Perseverance rover has detected complex molecules of carbon on the surface of Mars. Carbon is an essential element of all life on Earth. However, the presence of carbon ...

Along with other recent discoveries, the new finding from Perseverance boosts the case that Mars once hosted conditions that could support living things—but it isn’t a definitive sign of ancient organ ...

NASA has delivered the first batch of braking engines for the European Space Agency's Rosalind Franklin Mars rover, a hardware milestone that advances the mission from geopolitical wreckage to a ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has found complex carbon compounds in a Martian crater that had previously shown tantalising possible signs of ancient life. On Earth, these compounds are typically ...