NASA joins ESA's ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover mission to Mars, guaranteeing launch in 2028 to search for life on the Red ...

A recent photo from NASA's Curiosity rover gives an idea of what Mars would look like under skies that resemble our own on ...

Mars-like shock and chemical stress reveal ribonucleoprotein condensates as a key survival mechanism in yeast. Life on Mars, whether in the distant past, today, or in the future, would face a range of ...

For decades, the search for life on Mars has been a story of hints and maybes, of chemical curiosities that stopped just short of a clear biological signal. That changed this year when a single, ...

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 ...

Rocks found on Mars may provide the strongest evidence yet of past life on the Red Planet, but more testing is needed to back up those findings. Until the samples are retrieved by robotic spacecraft ...

Research led by NASA suggests a habitable past on Mars based on the discovery of minerals in Martian rocks associated with life on Earth. A core component of NASA’s Mars mission, the Perseverance ...

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, ...

Are researchers searching in the wrong locations on Mars to find ancient life? This is what a recent study published in Astrobiology hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated searching in ...

On Mars, it’s the little things that hint at past life. In 2025, tiny details in rocks across the Martian surface have revealed some of the most exciting clues yet that there may once have been ...