NASA’s Curiosity rover has assembled a string of chemical evidence from ancient Martian rocks that, taken together, builds ...

Taking a new look at a very old mudstone on Mars, scientists believe they have found a potential biosignature, indicating that Mars may have once hosted life. In July of 2024, while exploring an old, ...

Scientists studying a rock sample collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover have uncovered something tantalizing: the largest ...

Mars is full of surprises, but this one had scientists leaning closer to their multi-monitor arrays: a rock, about 31 inches across, sitting alone in a field of fractured bedrock in a region called ...

A mudstone sample from Jezero Crater shows textures and minerals that on Earth often form through microbial activity. Scientists caution that nonbiological processes could also explain the features, ...

A Martian rock that landed on Earth could hold clues about water on the Red Planet - and the possibility of extraterrestrial ...

Is there life on Mars? Or maybe just a turtle? A bizarre picture taken by a rover on the Red Planet appears to show what looks like a distinctive shelled reptile. NASA's Perseverance robot spotted the ...

Minerals linked to microbial processes on Earth found in riverbed rock A rock sample collected by NASA’s Perseverance rover from an ancient riverbed in Jezero Crater may contain the strongest evidence ...

A rock found on Mars contains substances that could have been produced by ancient microbes that were once alive, NASA said Wednesday. The NASA rover Perseverance found the rock, named “Cheyava Falls,” ...