Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

For decades, scientists have imagined Martian life as something that might look faintly familiar, perhaps microbes not so ...

A groundbreaking study published in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences suggests that a remote rock quarry in Algeria ...

In the new research, Goudz and his team combined decades of data from Mars orbiters with ancient maps of valleys, lake beds, ...

Scientists cultivating partnerships of fungi and algae believe their invention has far-out implications for how we create the ...

Scientists have long been interested in the caves of Mars — not just because they could provide a home for future human explorers, but also because they just might harbor evidence of life on the Red ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Rare salt formations have been documented for the first time on the shores of the Great Salt Lake, and they could yield insights about salt structures found on Mars before they ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover recently came across an odd rock, dubbed "Phippsaksla," that is unlike anything else the robot has found on the Red Planet. It turns out that it probably isn't from our ...

Implications for Mars' ancient climate The kaolinite fragments, which range from pebbles to boulders, are the latest small pieces to the larger debate regarding Mars' climate billions of years ago.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA's Perseverance rover. The crackling of electrical ...