A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

The rover's 26th sample, known as "Silver Mountain," has textures "unlike anything we've seen before," NASA says.

A perfectly square-shaped structure on Mars, 3 kilometers wide, spotted in NASA’s Mars Orbiter Camera images, has sparked ...

Rovers sent to Mars have so far failed to detect life, likely because it doesn’t exist on the Red Planet. But we can’t say ...

“One of the goals [of astrobiology] is to go to [other worlds] and look for microorganisms, but in the meantime there’s so ...

Finding life on another planet would be a world-changing discovery for humanity. But actually detecting it is no simple task.

The search for alien life could be boosted by a simple new test, say scientists. They believe the movement of microbes may ...

Astronauts face vision loss due to microgravity-induced eye changes. NASA races to find solutions before Mars missions, where ...

A perfectly square-shaped structure has been discovered on Mars, which is 3 kilometers wide. The discovery has generated ...

Researchers have now developed a simple test that could get us closer to the answer. The new method involves looking for ...