A groundbreaking study has revealed that ice on Mars could preserve traces of ancient life for up to 50 million years. This ...

"This is the moment where the metal detector has gone off and you've dug up something shiny. You still need to find out ...

Recent observations from 2025 have sparked intrigue in the scientific community as unusual signals detected over Mars’s North ...

Has NASA's Perseverance rover at long last found evidence that life did indeed once exist on Mars? Well, after more than four years of scouring the Red Planet's rocky surface, the intrepid rover has ...

It's not the first time there have been claims of signs of life on Mars, so why are scientists particularly thrilled now?

We could be one step closer to proving alien existence. In 1996, a group of NASA scientists made a stunning announcement: The discovery of what appeared to be bacterial fossils on Mars. President Bill ...

NASA’s “leopard-spotted” Martian rock may be the clearest potential sign of ancient microbial life yet—proof awaits sample ...

Researchers who examined data from Perseverance found that the rocks contained organics that could have been the precursors to life.

(THE CONVERSATION) NASA’s search for evidence of past life on Mars just produced an exciting update. On Sept. 10, 2025, a team of scientists published a paper detailing the Perseverance rover’s ...

Right now there is no conclusive evidence of life on Mars past or present. Nasa’s “leopard spots” are the most promising ...

The rover’s science instruments found that the formation’s sedimentary rocks are composed of clay and silt, which, on Earth, are excellent preservers of past microbial life. The findings were made ...