NASA’s Perseverance rover collected a rock sample in July 2024 that contained striking light-and-dark markings scientists now ...

Without digging or drilling, Perseverance rover turned up a rich trace of complex carbon on the bare face of a Martian rock.

NASA’s Curiosity rover has identified 21 carbon-containing molecules in a sample drilled from 3.5-billion-year-old rock on Mars, and seven of those molecules have never been detected on the planet ...

The organic molecules could come from life or from ordinary chemistry — only samples returned to Earth can settle it.

Did Viking 1 find evidence of life on Mars? Fifty years after the NASA lander touched down, the jury is still out.

The findings were tied to a 2020 mission, during which a rover visited the Red Planet and brought back several drilled rocks "It took dozens of scientists and engineers to locate this site, drill the ...

The NASA Perseverance rover may have found a pivotal clue that’s central to its mission on Mars: geological evidence that could suggest life existed on the red planet billions of years ago. The ...

What could we be looking at?

(Photo by NASA/JPL-CALTECH/MSSS / HANDOUT/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) NASA's Curiosity rover has discovered the most diverse collection of organic molecules ever found on Mars, according to a new ...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has discovered never-before-seen organic compounds that may indicate there was once life on the red planet. The nuclear-powered robot uncovered a diverse mix of organic ...