The Perseverance rover has been exploring Jezero Crater for years, but it's never found an otherworldly object quite like ...

NASA has discovered strong evidence for ancient life on Mars, a potentially groundbreaking finding for humanity. In this ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

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 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA's Perseverance rover. The crackling of electrical ...

The most exciting rock known to science is a school-desk-sized chunk of mudstone currently stuck on Mars. Formed from fine, ...

Implications for Mars' ancient climate The kaolinite fragments, which range from pebbles to boulders, are the latest small pieces to the larger debate regarding Mars' climate billions of years ago.

The MAVEN spacecraft – Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution – abruptly lost contact with Earth on 6 December 2025 while passing behind the red planet in the normal course of its orbit. When MAVEN re ...