On a battered rock in an ancient Martian riverbed, a pattern of dark, rounded patches has jolted planetary science. These “leopard spots” do not just look strange, they line up uncannily with what ...

In a quiet corner of an ancient riverbed on Mars, a speckled rock has pushed the search for extraterrestrial life into its most tantalizing phase yet. NASA now says the layered stone, drilled by the ...

NASA joins ESA's ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover mission to Mars, guaranteeing launch in 2028 to search for life on the Red ...

MARS was not always the beaming red we’re so used to seeing in space. Scientists have revealed that it was actually a “blue ...

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 ...

A study by scientists at Penn State and NASA shows that intact biomolecules from dormant microbes break down much more slowly ...

NASA’s search for evidence of past life on Mars just produced an exciting update. On Sept. 10, 2025, a team of scientists published a paper detailing the Perseverance rover’s investigation of a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential ...

Meenakshi Wadhwa, who is among the world's finest planetary scientists, was responsible for looking for life on Mars based on ...

There's something quite curious about Curiosity, according to one Mars researcher. A scientist who worked on NASA's 1976 Viking landers to the Red Planet claims that the Mars Science Laboratory's ...

The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...