When it comes to the space sciences, nothing is quite as exciting as the search for alien life, and NASA thinks it has a good ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has spent six months exploring the site to investigate if they are a clue to the presence of water.

What turns an oddly patterned Martian rock into one of the most watched clues in planetary science? For NASA’s Perseverance ...

Why it matters: While not evidence of life, these discoveries show that ancient Mars had complex organic chemistry, ...

Tests conducted with tardigrades suggest that there is something in Martian dirt that dramatically reduces biological ...

The way this document is written suggests that when NASA scores bidders for the Mars Telecommunications Network, the addition ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has detected electrical sparks within dust devils on Mars for the first time. The rover's SuperCam instrument recorded dozens of audio clips of the discharges, which sound ...

A potential new mineral on Mars forms when iron sulfates are heated above 100°C. Data from Valles Marineris regions suggest ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

When the surface of the Sun exploded with activity in May 2024, Earth was hit by the biggest solar storm in more than two ...

Humans could have come from Mars, scientists have said. A study by Johns Hopkins University has found that alien microbes ...

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 ...