NASA has discovered strong evidence for ancient life on Mars, a potentially groundbreaking finding for humanity. In this ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...

The Perseverance rover has been exploring Jezero Crater for years, but it's never found an otherworldly object quite like ...

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.

The most exciting rock known to science is a school-desk-sized chunk of mudstone currently stuck on Mars. Formed from fine, ...