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

The Mars Perseverance rover has been investigating the Jezero Crater and came across something that is not native to Mars at all. It is a meteorite that collided with the red planet. Though various ...

Until now, scientists believed that Mars’ skylights – pits in the surface of mars – were formed by volcanic activity. But ...

American space agency NASA said the Perseverance rover is good to go on Mars until at least 2031, both hardware and software ...

A metallic-looking rock sitting on the Martian surface has jolted a mission that was already rewriting what we know about the ...

Some scientific breakthroughs may be lost to time due to scandal and redaction, while others are simply a case of waiting for ...

The White House allocated just $18.8 billion to the space agency — a 24% decrease from the previous year's funding — in its ...

Yes, zombie creatures from another world could indeed land on a defenseless planet, but in a twist, it's the Earthlings who ...

Scientists discover 26 new bacterial species in NASA cleanrooms, revealing surprisingly resilient microbes with potential ...

A test model of the Perseverance rover, designed to explore the surface of Mars, sits in a garage at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...

NASA's Europa Clipper and the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed the chemical secrets of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, ...

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 ...