Scientists may be one step closer in their hunt for signs of past life on Mars after the Curiosity rover's latest find.

Mars is full of surprises, but this one had scientists leaning closer to their multi-monitor arrays: a rock, about 31 inches across, sitting alone in a field of fractured bedrock in a region called ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has assembled a string of chemical evidence from ancient Martian rocks that, taken together, builds the strongest circumstantial case yet for conditions that could have ...

Taking a new look at a very old mudstone on Mars, scientists believe they have found a potential biosignature, indicating that Mars may have once hosted life. In July of 2024, while exploring an old, ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captured this image of a rocky area nicknamed “Cheyava Falls” on July 18, 2024, showing black “poppy seed” and larger “leopard spot” features. Researchers say a sample ...

Scientists studying a rock sample collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover have uncovered something tantalizing: the largest ...

A rock found on Mars contains substances that could have been produced by ancient microbes that were once alive, NASA said Wednesday. The NASA rover Perseverance found the rock, named “Cheyava Falls,” ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has been exploring Mars' Jezero Crater since 2021 with the primary objective to investigate the environments that could have supported life in the past on the Red Planet. In ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover may have stumbled on a visitor from outer space – a strange, shiny rock on Mars that scientists think could be a meteorite forged in the heart of an ancient asteroid.