NASA announced it found promising potential biosignatures on Mars. Potential biosignatures are things like chemicals and structures that could be a result of life on the planet, but more research was ...

NASA's Mars rover Perseverance has uncovered rocks in a dry river channel that may hold potential signs of ancient microscopic life, scientists reported Wednesday. They stressed that in-depth analysis ...

NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade. Maven, an acronym for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, abruptly stopped communicating with ground stations ...

NASA has lost contact with one of its three spacecraft orbiting Mars, the agency announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, a second Mars orbiter is perilously close to running out of fuel, and the third mission ...

On the harsh surface of Mars, where every resource counts, scientists are turning human sweat and urine into a vital building ...

There might’ve been life on Mars after all. Although it resembles a coral typically found at the bottom of the ocean, it was a piece of rock that a NASA spacecraft — Curiosity rover — recently ...

NASA is confronting a rare double setback at Mars, with one long-serving orbiter suddenly falling silent and another aging spacecraft expected to reach the end of its life soon. The twin problems ...

Bringing samples from Mars back to Earth is one of NASA's most ambitious goals. The plan goes back to the 1970s, with NASA's robotic exploration program, when the first spacecraft landed on the ...

WASHINGTON — NASA has lost contact with a Mars orbiter that has circled the planet for more than a decade, collecting science data and serving as a key communications relay. In a statement late Dec. 9 ...

Scientists now have proof that Mars' dusty storms can generate mini lightning, putting to rest decades of speculation. The discovery came from a microphone aboard NASA's Perseverance rover, a lab on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA has found potential signs of life on Mars, the agency said last Wednesday. Although additional scientific study is needed in ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has identified an exotic rock on Mars that may be an iron-nickel meteorite, according to scientists on the mission team. The oddly sculpted rock, nicknamed Phippsaksla, ...