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

An uncrewed mission called Artemis 1 flew around the moon and back again in 2022. Four astronauts aim to do the same next ...

Scientists believe intriguing leopard spots on a rock sampled by the Perseverance rover on Mars may have potentially been ...

Prize: NASA could offer a prize—say $3 billion to the first company and $1 billion to a second company—for delivering ...

Viking consisted of two twin orbiters and landers, with experimental chambers in the landers to conduct three biology ...

Minerals in the rock might have been produced by microbes in chemical reactions, but researchers say they’ll need to examine ...

Was there ever life on Mars? Planetary scientists think there could have been but there hasn’t been any direct evidence.

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has captured several images of the Insight lander on the Red Planet between 2018 and 2024. See a time-lapse of the imagery here. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Unive ...

See Rocket Lab's "proposed mission architecture" for a Mars sample return mission in this animation. Credit: Rocket Lab ...

But the claim that NASA announced found life on Mars was false. NASA announced it found promising evidence of potential ...

Potential signs of microbial life were found in a rock sample collected by the rover in 2024 from an ancient dry riverbed on ...

The agency’s scientists are still not saying they found fossils of Martian microbes, but analysis of the specimen collected ...