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

NASA’s Curiosity rover has spent six months exploring the site to investigate if they are a clue to the presence of water.

Mars may have been much warmer and wetter billions of years ago than previously thought, according to new findings from ...

Samples taken from an ancient Mars rock may indicate that ancient life once existed on the Red Planet, according to a study ...

Yet another tantalizing clue. The post NASA Running Out of Non-Life Explanations for What Its Rover Found on Mars appeared ...

The radio 'howl' of a lightning-like discharge has been detected at Mars for the first time. While orbiting the red planet, ...

New research shows that an intense regional dust storm transported unusually high amounts of water vapor into Mars’ upper atmosphere, boosting hydrogen escape. The discovery reshapes understanding of ...

For decades, scientists have imagined Martian life as something that might look faintly familiar, perhaps microbes not so different from those that once thrived in Earth’s ancient seas. A new wave of ...

Scientists may be one step closer in their hunt for signs of past life on Mars after the Curiosity rover's latest find.

“This finding by Perseverance …is the closest we have ever come to discovering life on Mars,” said acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy in a statement. “The identification of a potential biosignature ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More evidence that Mars was once a habitable, wet oasis not dissimilar to Earth has been found in the rocks scattered throughout ...

NASA's Perseverance rover discovered rocks on Mars, providing new evidence the red planet was once a wet, habitable world that could support life.