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 ...

In a quiet corner of an ancient riverbed on Mars, a speckled rock has pushed the search for extraterrestrial life into its most tantalizing phase yet. NASA now says the layered stone, drilled by the ...

Mars once had sprawling river systems that rivaled major watersheds on Earth, and scientists have now identified the biggest ones for the first time. Researchers mapped 16 massive drainage basins ...

The key to solving the mystery of the Viking results is the discovery of perchlorate on the Martian surface in 2008. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

The redemption of Viking: Did the 50-year-old mission to Mars find life or not? How NASA’s 1975 mission to Mars led to decades of scientific controversy and confusion over the existence of life on ...