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

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

A major new study lays out plans for crewed missions to Mars, with the search for extraterrestrial life being a top priority ...

Electrons released when cosmic rays strike water-ice can provide energy for microbes and facilitate the formation of complex ...

In the many decades of NASA exploration, there has only been one detection that got on that scale. It was collected by the ...

New laboratory studies could shed light on a rock containing potential signs of alien life that’s stranded on Mars ...

NASA's Perseverance robot, depicted here landing on the Martian dunes, used its cutting-edge cameras to image what could be the first evidence of life ever detected on Mars, opening the possibility ...

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One researcher hypothesizes that experiments carried out by NASA's Viking landers in 1976 could have inadvertently killed microbes living in Martian rocks. Other experts are skeptical. When you ...

Scientists will gather today to debate where NASA should next land on Mars, as the American space agency prepares a new mission in its search for life on the Red Planet. The debate comes as NASA is ...

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 ...

The aim is to establish better coordination between astronauts, robotic missions, and artificial intelligence.