Scientists believe intriguing leopard spots on a rock sampled by the Perseverance rover on Mars may have potentially been ...

After hundreds of years of trying, experts have finally managed to read a series of iconic, ancient scrolls – with a little ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber for the first time in South America, providing a fresh glimpse into life on Earth at a time when flowering plants ...

The lentils now grown in the Canary Islands have a history that stretches back almost 2,000 years on the site. This is shown ...

Roger Wiens has been a Mars explorer since he was 11 years old. He now leads the SuperCam instrument team on NASA’s Mars ...

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

“The most likely trigger was an impact on a larger asteroid parent of Ryugu, which fractured the rock and melted buried ice, ...

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

Columbian mammoths in Mexico are genetically different from those in the U.S. and Canada, surprise DNA study reveals.

The discovery by the six-wheeled rover in Jezero Crater represents one of the best pieces of evidence to date about the ...