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

One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they ...

A Mars rover has discovered strange, bleached rocks that suggest Mars may have once been wet and warm. Researchers at Purdue ...

Scientists have detected tiny lightning bolts on Mars for the first time — they were found discharging around NASA's Perseverance rover and coming from dust-storm fronts and whirling dust devils.

NASA's Perseverance rover has for the first time helped scientists confirm that electrical sparks often ignite within ...

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

A NASA rover that launched from Florida detected electrical sparks igniting within small dusty tornadoes whirling on Mars' ...

Eight "skylights" may be entrances to underground spaces where evidence of ancient microbial organisms could be found.

NASA has unveiled a series of new discoveries that make the possibility of alien life elsewhere in the universe more ...

Perseverance, the aptly named robot that has been criss-crossing the planet Mars since February 2021, has collected numerous samples along its 30 km route. Assigned to explore an ancient river delta ...

One mission would involve a full 300 sols on the Red Planet, with the goal of finding extinct or current life on Mars. But ...