Why it matters: While not evidence of life, these discoveries show that ancient Mars had complex organic chemistry, ...

Recent findings from NASA’s Perseverance rover suggest that Mars may have once harbored life. The rover’s exploration of the Jezero Crater has yielded rock samples with intriguing patterns consistent ...

Fresh evidence from orbit is sharpening one of planetary science’s most tantalizing possibilities: that hidden caverns on Mars could shelter traces of life. Instead of focusing only on dried-up ...

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Our biggest obstacle might not be technological,” author Scott E. Solomon said of future life on Mars. “It might be us.” ...

NASA officials explain how the International Space Station supports Artemis and future Mars missions through life support testing, human research, partnerships and commercial development in low Earth ...

The key to solving the mystery of the Viking results is the discovery of perchlorate on the Martian surface in 2008.

A few weeks ago, the rover Perseverance found potential signs of life on Mars. Again. I’m getting tired of scientists getting so worked up about potential life on Mars. First, it was potential signs ...

A new paper suggests that BARSOOM may have been alive on the planet, and was killed in the Viking experiments.