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

“This very well could be the clearest sign of life that we’ve ever found on Mars, which is incredibly exciting,” Acting NASA ...

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

As a new paper in Nature reports, a sample Perseverance drilled from the rock may contain potential biosignatures of long ago microbial life.“This finding by Perseverance…is the closest we have ever ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover may have found ancient life on Mars—echoing decades of alien movies warning us not to underestimate ...

Researchers who examined data from Perseverance found that the rocks contained organics that could have been the precursors ...

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