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“This finding by Perseverance …is the closest we have ever come to discovering life on Mars,” said acting NASA administrator ...

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Has NASA's Perseverance rover at long last found evidence that life did indeed once exist on Mars? Here's what we know.

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A planetary scientist walks through the sensors and systems that went into the recent detection of potential biosignatures.

NASA published tantalizing evidence that the red planet once harbored life. But Trump’s proposed budget could leave the ...

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Did NASA find life on Mars? What NASA has found may be the strongest evidence yet that ancient microbial life once existed on ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover found possible signs of ancient life in rocks on Mars, keeping scientists up at night.

Four researchers will spend more than a year in a 3D-printed habitat, acting as though they're eating, sleeping and living on ...