If Mars ever hosted microorganisms in its bygone oceans, their fossils might still be preserved in minerals—and now, we have ...

During the Mars Area school board’s Tuesday, March 11, meeting, superintendent Mark Gross credited the community and first ...

Scientists found fossil-like traces in gypsum, suggesting ancient microbial life may have existed on Mars billions of years ...

NASA is handling numerous high-priority missions and has been granted a week extension to submit its mass layoff plans.

Planetary scientists in Algeria and Switzerland have developed a scientific instrument that could help hunt for signs of life ...

Scientists may finally have a way to detect ancient life on Mars by studying microbial fossils preserved in sulfate minerals. Gypsum deposits on Mars may be hiding evidence of past microbial life — ...

A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...

NASA is granted an extra week to submit plans for mass layoffs amid high-priority space missions. SpaceX's Elon Musk ...

This study has the potential to help researchers develop more efficient methods in finding ancient life on Mars, which has long been the driving force behind exploring the Red Planet. For the study, ...

Mars was once wet, with rivers and lakes and ... Sellam subjected them to a miniature laser-powered mass spectrometer, one chosen because it is small enough to fit on a spacecraft and therefore ...