The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...

With a new NASA grant, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) will identify and characterize life and its biosignatures in frozen sand dunes to offer insight into how microbial life could form. The ...

Many biological molecules are chiral, meaning they exist in two forms that are mirror images of each other, like left and ...

Research published late last year indicated “seismic discontinuities in the Martian crust” that scientists believe could be an indicator of liquid water under the Martian surface, raising the ...

Organisms known as extremophiles have been found inhabiting a range of extreme conditions on Earth, including inside our bodies. Could they be on Mars, too?