From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

In a quiet corner of an ancient riverbed on Mars, a speckled rock has pushed the search for extraterrestrial life into its ...

NASA’s search for life beyond Earth is no longer a distant dream but a coordinated campaign that now stretches from Martian ...

NASA’s Mars rover finds organic signals in mudstone that resemble microbial activity, sparking new debate over life on the ...

Until now, scientists believed that Mars’ skylights – pits in the surface of mars – were formed by volcanic activity. But ...

Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to ...

American space agency NASA said the Perseverance rover is good to go on Mars until at least 2031, both hardware and software ...

An alien doorway on Mars, as captured by Mast Camera (Mastcam) onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 3466 (image courtesy NASA) Scientists and David Bowie have all famously wondered if there is ...

Yes, zombie creatures from another world could indeed land on a defenseless planet, but in a twist, it's the Earthlings who ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has sent back a striking new "postcard" from high on the slopes of the Red Planet's Mount Sharp, ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has made another strange discovery. While investigating the Vernodden area of Jezero Crater – the crater where the rover first landed on the Red Planet in February 2021 ...

As NASA plans for long-term human missions beyond Earth, one question keeps resurfacing: how do you sustain life in places ...