The Perseverance rover has been exploring Jezero Crater for years, but it's never found an otherworldly object quite like ...

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

Fresh orbital images and new geological analysis have revealed eight mysterious caves on Mars that appear unusually well suited to protect traces of life. Together, these caverns, portals and ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to ...

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 ...

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

An alien doorway on Mars, as captured by Mast Camera (Mastcam) onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 3466 (image courtesy NASA) Scientists and David Bowie have all famously wondered if there is ...

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