NASA has just uncovered a groundbreaking discovery on Mars - and it could change everything we thought we knew about the Red Planet. From unexpected chemical signatures to signs of potential past life ...

This week, NASA said scientists took the biggest step yet toward discovering whether there was ever life on Mars when a rock sample collected by the Mars rover Perseverance contained potential ...

Dear friends, today let’s talk about an incredibly exciting topic—could there be seeds of Earth life hidden in Martian soil? Recently, scientists have discovered mysterious microbial communities, and ...

NASA has found “the clearest sign yet” that life once existed on Mars, the agency announced on Wednesday.

Perseverance used its SHERLOC instrument for the photo. SHERLOC stands for Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & ...

On Episode 177 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and and Tariq Malik are joined by Dr. Michael Tice to talk about a possible ...

“There is no evidence of microbes on Mars today, but if any had been present on ancient Mars, they too might have reduced ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover found leopard-spot features in a Martian rock that could signal ancient microbial life.

If we compare Earth and Mars to snacks, textbooks often depict them as 'thousand layer pastries'—layered and orderly. However ...

Somewhere between Los Angeles and Death Valley, there’s a slice of California that feels like it was teleported from another dimension – welcome to Trona, the high desert town that might be the Golden ...

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Perseverance has a drill to penetrate rocks and tubes for samples gathered from places suitable for hosting life billions of ...