Scientists have found strong evidence that Mars was inhabited multiple times. The team identified 24 minerals that pointed to ...

This week, NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered compelling chemical signatures in Jezero Crater. Could the offer evidence ...

New research using NASA's Perseverance rover has uncovered strong evidence that Mars' Jezero Crater experienced multiple ...

Roger Wiens has been a Mars explorer since he was 11 years old. He now leads the SuperCam instrument team on NASA’s Mars ...

Jezero Crater’s rocks reveal three stages of water activity, shifting from hostile acidic fluids to more life-friendly ...

NASA's search for evidence of past life on Mars just produced an exciting update. On Sept. 10, 2025, a team of scientists ...

A planetary scientist walks through the sensors and systems that went into the recent detection of potential biosignatures.

After a year of scientific scrutiny, a rock sample collected by the Perseverance rover has been confirmed to contain a potential biosignature. The sample is the best candidate so far to provide ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has detected compelling evidence of potential past life on Mars within Jezero Crater. The rover's ...

NASA’s Mars rover finds organic signals in mudstone that resemble microbial activity, sparking new debate over life on the ...

When the Perseverance rover landed in Mars’s Jezero crater—a formation that long ago was Jezero lake—in February, 2021 it ...