The recent detection of potential signs of ancient microbial life on Mars by NASA’s Perseverance rover has sparked renewed ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The discovery of life on Mars is a tad closer than ever before. This month, NASA announced the discovery of signs of life on the red planet in deposits of clay and silt in a canyon.

A groundbreaking study has revealed that ice on Mars could preserve traces of ancient life for up to 50 million years. This ...

The search for life on Mars dates back about five decades, and a Sept. 10 announcement marks perhaps the most dramatic advancement yet. The news: NASA's Perseverance rover had found potential signs of ...

Billions of years ago, Mars’ Jezero Crater held a lake fed by rivers that could have carried minerals and maybe even organic matter. On Earth, places like that are teeming with microbial life. NOVA is ...

Recently, NASA announced that the Mars Perseverance rover has found indications that life may have at one time existed on the Red Planet. The announcement did not mark the first time the space agency ...

A mudstone sample from Jezero Crater shows textures and minerals that on Earth often form through microbial activity. Scientists caution that nonbiological processes could also explain the features, ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance has uncovered rocks in a dry river channel that may hold potential signs of ancient microscopic life, scientists reported last week. NASA ...

Scientists discovered that baker’s yeast can survive harsh Mars-like conditions, revealing how simple life forms adapt under ...

"The idea was for our payload to get us just up to the potential biosignature designation and have the rest of the story told by instruments here on Earth." A potentially huge discovery by NASA's ...