Scientists may be one step closer in their hunt for signs of past life on Mars after the Curiosity rover's latest find.

NASA's Perseverance rover discovered rocks on Mars, providing new evidence the red planet was once a wet, habitable world ...

Scientists studying a rock sample collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover have uncovered something tantalizing: the largest ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captured this image of a rocky area nicknamed “Cheyava Falls” on July 18, 2024, showing black “poppy seed” and larger “leopard spot” features. Researchers say a sample ...

Organic compounds found in Mars rocks are too abundant to rule out the possibility of Martian life in the red planet’s history, NASA scientists say. In March of 2025, NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered ...

Mars is full of surprises, but this one had scientists leaning closer to their multi-monitor arrays: a rock, about 31 inches across, sitting alone in a field of fractured bedrock in a region called ...

The discovery suggests that parts of Mars may once have supported tropical-like climates, complete with heavy, sustained rainfall.

NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars stumbled upon rocks last year that scientists think may show signs that Mars once hosted microbial life. In a new paper published in Nature, researchers offer ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA's Mars rover Perseverance has uncovered rocks in a dry river channel that may hold potential signs of ancient microscopic life, scientists reported Wednesday. They ...

Rocks found on Mars may provide the strongest evidence yet of past life on the Red Planet, but more testing is needed to back up those findings. Until the samples are retrieved by robotic spacecraft ...

A long time ago, life left microscopic signatures on Mars — or did it? That's the question NASA scientists have worked for years to answer. On Wednesday, NASA researchers said the answer might be in a ...