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 ...

From orbit high above Mars, a familiar shape has appeared in an utterly alien landscape: a vast feature that looks uncannily like a butterfly pressed into the planet’s dusty crust. Captured by NASA’s ...

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