We'll likely need to get Perseverance's samples to Earth to determine if they do indeed harbor evidence of Mars life —but the ...

NASA has announced that its Perseverance Mars rover spotted "potential biosignatures" in an ancient dry riverbed last year.

A complex project aimed at retrieving rock and dirt samples from Mars has long been a top priority for NASA, with proponents arguing the mission could answer the age-old question of whether life once ...

Highlighting its intent to send humans to Mars, NASA has announced that it will soon be embarking on a year-long simulation of a Mars mission using four research volunteers.

Ancient organisms may have left microscopic "biosignatures" on Mars. That's according to NASA scientists, who say a rock ...

In the face of such harsh conditions, the crazy idea of terraforming Mars is gradually taking shape in laboratories. The 'Mars Dome' project proposed by MIT envisions covering specific areas with a ...

Nuclear pulse propulsion is a technology that would work. It was being developed in the 1960s but it was stopped because of the nuclear test ban treaty and concerns over fallout inside the ...

Missions carrying humans to Mars will require on-site resources, and a project led by Planetary Science Institute (PSI) scientists Nathaniel Putzig and Gareth Morgan is mapping the availability of ...