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

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 ...

Nearly half a century after NASA’s Viking landers touched Mars, one question shadows their experiments: Did they miss life, ...

NASA and the European Space Agency are building the Rosalind Franklin rover to drill 2 metres into Martian ground and search ...

Without digging or drilling, Perseverance rover turned up a rich trace of complex carbon on the bare face of a Martian rock.

NASA's Perseverance rover has found complex, ring-shaped carbon molecules sealed inside rocks in Mars's Jezero Crater, a ...

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

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

At the recent Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, researchers presented evidence from NASA’s Perseverance rover that ...

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

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft just used Mars as a giant gravitational slingshot to continue its journey toward a strange metal rich asteroid. The close flyby boosted the spacecraft’s speed by about 1,000 ...

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