NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took this selfie on July 23, 2024, the 1,218th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. To the left of the rover near the center of the image is the arrowhead-shaped rock ...

NASA boffins have moved one giant leap closer to proving we aren't alone after a groundbreaking discovery on Mars. The space agency's Curiosity rover, which has been trekking across the Red Planet for ...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has discovered never-before-seen organic compounds that may indicate there was once life on the red planet. The nuclear-powered robot uncovered a diverse mix of organic ...

Editor at Large When the Perseverance rover landed in Mars’s Jezero crater—a formation that long ago was Jezero lake—in February, 2021 it turned west. West is where the riverbeds, the deltas, the ...

The search for life on Mars dates back about five decades, and a Sept. 10 announcement marks perhaps the most dramatic advancement yet. The news: NASA's Perseverance rover had found potential signs of ...

Landing humans on Mars could teach us whether life ever existed beyond Earth, how planets change over time, and how humans can live on other worlds. By studying Mars up close, astronauts could answer ...

Has NASA found life on Mars? In a word, no. But last year, NASA’s Perseverance rover found signs in an ancient rock that could point to life having existed on the Red Planet billions of years ago. And ...