Mars has long tempted scientists with hints of chemistry that might once have supported life. Now a NASA-led study argues ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has found the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars. The discovery was made in ...

That does not mean that the detected alkanes are evidence of life on Mars; the conclusion relies on modeling how radiation ...

Scientists studying a rock sample collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover have uncovered something tantalizing: the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars. The compounds — decane, undecane, and ...

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 ...

After the Red Planet reemerged from conjunction — a period when NASA doesn't communicate with spacecraft because Mars is ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has just made history by driving across Mars using routes planned by artificial intelligence instead of human operators. A vision-capable AI analyzed the same images and ...

What everyone agrees on is that NASA needs a new spacecraft capable of relaying communications from Mars to Earth. This issue ...

NASA's Viking missions to Mars may have discovered evidence for life on the Red Planet after all, according to scientists who ...

A new paper suggests that BARSOOM may have been alive on the planet, and was killed in the Viking experiments.

The next CHAPEA mission is slated for spring of 2025. For over a year, four crew members participating in NASA's Mars Dune Alpha simulated experience communicated, ate, slept and researched as if they ...