The strongest hints yet that Mars once hosted living microbes are no longer theoretical models or ambiguous chemistry. They ...

NASA's Perseverance rover discovered rocks on Mars, providing new evidence the red planet was once a wet, habitable world ...

We may have detected Martian life 50 years ago.

The discovery suggests that parts of Mars may once have supported tropical-like climates, complete with heavy, sustained rainfall.

"The structures that we were able to identify in the images are clearly the mouth of a river into an ocean." The post ...

If life ever existed on Mars, traces of it might still be frozen beneath the planet's icy surface. A new study from NASA and Penn State University suggests fragments of biomolecules from ancient ...

NASA's Perseverance robot, depicted here landing on the Martian dunes, used its cutting-edge cameras to image what could be the first evidence of life ever detected on Mars, opening the possibility ...

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 ...

The three astronauts on the mission to be the first humans on Mars don’t even get to the surface before the trouble starts. They enter the Martian atmosphere wrong, half crash-land in a spot not quite ...

Recent findings have brought us closer than we’ve ever been to confirming life beyond the Earth. As we wait for confirmation or otherwise, let’s think about what this will tell us about life ...