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 ...

The quest for extraterrestrial life remains a cornerstone of space exploration. In a groundbreaking revelation, NASA has presented persuasive evidence of ancient life on Mars. Let’s dig deeper into ...

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 ...

Jezero Crater has become one of the most exciting places in the search for signs of past life on Mars. Since landing in 2021, NASA’s Perseverance rover has been exploring the crater’s ancient river ...

Mars Discovery Raises Compelling Questions: Life or Chemistry? Results from NASA’s Perseverance rover reveal organic molecules, unusual minerals, and intriguing rock textures inside Jezero Crater’s ...

There's more evidence that water once flowed on Mars with the discovery of an ancient river delta deep below the surface. NASA's Perseverance rover found it more than 35 meters beneath Jezero Crater ...

NASA has made an incredible discovery on Mars, which it claims is the clearest evidence of life on the planet. Using one of its rovers, evidence of ancient alien microbes have been uncovered in a dry ...

Billions of years ago, Mars’ Jezero Crater held a lake fed by rivers that could have carried minerals and maybe even organic matter. On Earth, places like that are teeming with microbial life. NOVA is ...