For decades, the search for life on Mars has been a story of hints and maybes, of chemical curiosities that stopped just ...

For decades, scientists have imagined Martian life as something that might look faintly familiar, perhaps microbes not so ...

Over four years since it landed on Mars, NASA's Perseverance Rover might have made serious headway in its mission to find signs of ancient microbial life on the planet. Last July, the autonomous ...

Billions of years ago, Mars’ Jezero Crater held a lake fed by rivers that could have carried minerals and maybe even organic matter. On Earth, places like that are teeming with microbial life. NOVA is ...

A long time ago, life left microscopic signatures on Mars — or did it? That's the question NASA scientists have worked for years to answer. On Wednesday, NASA researchers said the answer might be in a ...

Has NASA's Perseverance rover at long last found evidence that life did indeed once exist on Mars? Well, after more than four years of scouring the Red Planet's rocky surface, the intrepid rover has ...

NASA says that the evidence found by Mars Perserverence is confirmed as signs of ancient life on Mars. They found the evidence a year ago and they had teams investigate. The report is that this is the ...

The search for life on Mars dates back about five decades, and a Sept. 10 announcement marks perhaps the most dramatic advancement yet. The news: NASA's Perseverance rover had found potential signs of ...

Minerals linked to microbial processes on Earth found in riverbed rock A rock sample collected by NASA’s Perseverance rover from an ancient riverbed in Jezero Crater may contain the strongest evidence ...

Seán Jordan receives funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 1101114969) and from Research ...

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