For decades, scientists have scoured Mars for even the faintest trace of life—and now, an intriguing, speckled rock may have delivered the most compelling clue yet. A freshly analyzed sample collected ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA says a rock sample collected by its Perseverance Mars rover in the Jezero Crater may contain evidence of ancient microbial life on Mars. The rover discovered a rock ...

Minerals linked to microbial processes on Earth found in riverbed rock A rock sample collected by NASA’s Perseverance rover from an ancient riverbed in Jezero Crater may contain the strongest evidence ...

Over four years since it landed on Mars, NASA's Perseverance Rover might have made serious headway in its mission to find signs of ancient microbial life on the planet. Last July, the autonomous ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission found sugars essential for biology on asteroid Bennu. These sugars, along with previously found ...

NASA scientists made an unexpected discovery on Mars—a strange shaped rock given the name “Phippsaksla” that may not have originated on the red planet at all. While surveying bedrock at a site called ...

Is life out there? NASA finds essential sugars on ancient asteroid the size of the Empire State Building - ‘We’re looking at ...

NASA’s famous Mars rover Perseverance, which landed on the red planet back in 2021, has been quiet for a long time—but now the indestructible robot is making new headlines. According to NASA, the ...

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 Perseverance rover is investigating signs of ancient life on Mars, and has now collected some of the most promising samples from the Red Planet yet. According to NASA, several rock samples ...

Talk about a sugar rush! NASA may have just come a little closer to cracking one of science’s most enduring mysteries — how ...