Why it matters: While not evidence of life, these discoveries show that ancient Mars had complex organic chemistry, ...

Yet another tantalizing clue. The post NASA Running Out of Non-Life Explanations for What Its Rover Found on Mars appeared ...

Searching for past or present life on Mars is the sole driving force behind every mission we send to the red planet, from orbiters to landers to rovers. However, there remains a concern in the ...

NASA's Curiosity rover, which launched in 2011 from Florida, found signs of organic material that on Earth is most often ...

Mars’ frozen ice caps may be time capsules for ancient life. Lab experiments show that key building blocks of proteins can survive tens of millions of years in pure ice, even under relentless cosmic ...

Organic molecules found by the Curiosity rover are too common to be explained by any process we know, other than life, according to a new study. That, of course, doesn’t rule out the possibility that ...

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 year ago, NASA announced that its Mars rover Curiosity had discovered long-chain organic compounds. Their quantity suggests ...

Recently, NASA revealed exciting details of new findings from Mars. Scientists have discovered tiny patterns of unusual minerals in the clay-rich rocks on the edge of Jezero Crater—an ancient lake ...

“This finding by Perseverance …is the closest we have ever come to discovering life on Mars,” said acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy in a statement. “The identification of a potential biosignature ...

The key to solving the mystery of the Viking results is the discovery of perchlorate on the Martian surface in 2008.