A Ph.D. student and his supervisor have developed a simple way to test for active life on Mars and other planets using ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover stationed on Mars spotted a dome-shaped rock with a striking resemblance to a helmet used during ...

Mars, once thought too cold and dry for liquid water, may briefly host salty brines twice a day during certain seasons. These ...

Currently, only robotic landers, rovers and a helicopter have visited the red planet, but the images regularly beamed back to Earth by the rovers are providing humanity with as much information as ...

Scientists have found tiny crystal worlds teeming with life at the Great Salt Lake — a discovery that could reveal how ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has added to its trove of curious finds, as the space agency published a photo of a rock on the surface of Mars that looks like a centuries-old helmet. The rock has a pointed ...

This is because these objects formed “billions of years ago when liquid water still existed on the Red Planet. Water carried ...

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

Methane detected on Mars could come from living microbes, but it might also be contamination from past missions or extinct ...

The thick, mineral-rich layers of clay found on Mars suggest that the Red Planet harbored potentially life-hosting environments for long stretches in the ancient past, a new study suggests.

If Mars is, as some researchers hypothesize, anything like Earth, these pockets of liquid water could hold life. "People have found microorganisms that live in these shallow subsurface habitats on ...

Cosmic rays from deep space might be the secret energy source that allows life to exist underground on Mars and icy moons ...