The strongest hints yet that Mars once hosted living microbes are no longer theoretical models or ambiguous chemistry. They are etched into a single, oddly speckled rock in an ancient riverbed, where ...

Scientists Find Signs That Mars May Once Have Been Covered by an Ocean ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took this selfie on July 23, 2024. To the left of the rover near the center of the image is the arrowhead-shaped rock nicknamed "Cheyava Falls." Preliminary inspection ...

The discovery is based on previous Curiosity findings revealed since 2018 about basic organics found on Mars though the quantity of such findings is comparatively huge this time.

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New research has mapped 16 extensive, interlaced river systems on Mars, dating back approximately 3.7 billion years to the Early Hesperian Period. These large river systems, despite covering only ...

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 ...

Scientists suspect that the surface of Mars was once teeming with water, a lush oasis full of river systems and lakes — until a dramatic change in the planet’s magnetic field caused it to lose most of ...

Scientists believe these rocks were formed by ancient rainfall, similar to how they form in tropical climates on Earth. The discovery adds to the evidence that Mars may have once been a habitable ...

NASA announced it found promising potential biosignatures on Mars. Potential biosignatures are things like chemicals and structures that could be a result of life on the planet, but more research was ...