Samples taken from an ancient Mars rock may indicate that ancient life once existed on the Red Planet, according to a study ...

Scientists have discovered traces of organic molecules on the Red Planet and are not ruling out the possibility that they were produced by living organisms.

Mars's red landscape surprised scientists with a black-and-white striped rock. Dubbed 'zebra rock', it stands out in Jezero Crater. The stripes suggest past geological activity like slow magma cooling ...

NASA’s Perseverance Rover is celebrating five years on Mars this week. A quirky gallery shows some of the space oddities it ...

The largest piece of Mars to ever make its way to Earth is now also the most valuable meteorite in the world. The large space rock, which has the scientific name of NWA 16788, had its Martian origins ...

A 3.5-billion-year old rock discovered on the Red Planet is "the closest we've come to discovering ancient life on Mars," according to NASA. Potential signs of microbial life were found in a rock ...

Meteorite NWA 16788 is one of the rarest types of space rock on Earth Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places like ...

The Perseverance rover found a rock on Mars that scientists think could show evidence that life once existed on the Red Planet. The rock – nicknamed "Cheyava Falls" after a waterfall in the Grand ...

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get them back to Earth. For years, the U.S. space agency's Perseverance rover has ...

NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover has encountered something unlike anything else discovered on the Red Planet: a zebra-striped rock that sticks out like a sore thumb in the midst of the planet’s dusty, ...

The largest-known piece of Mars ever found on Earth is going up for auction on Wednesday and could fetch as much as $4 million because of the rareness of an extraterrestrial item. Sotheby’s auction ...

Who said there’s an egg crisis? NASA’s Perseverance Rover has stumbled across an extremely strange rock that’s “astonished” scientists while exploring the rim of the Jezero crater on Mars. Nicknamed ...