Why it matters: While not evidence of life, these discoveries show that ancient Mars had complex organic chemistry, ...

America was winning the race to find Martian life. Then China jumped in. In July 2024, NASA’s Perseverance rover came across a peculiar rocky outcrop on Mars covered in strange spots. On Earth, these ...

Scientists continue to look for signs of alien life on Mars, but this scientist truly popularized the idea, claiming to find ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have known about Mars holes for years but an old image has reignited interest. These holes could contain evidence of ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered what may be the strongest evidence yet of ancient life on Mars. Inside a 3-billion-year-old sedimentary rock from Jezero Crater, scientists identified dark ...

Gypsum is a soft, translucent sulfate mineral that allows just enough light to penetrate for photosynthetic organisms to survive inside, while also protecting them from being desiccated or exposed to ...

Astrobiologists say we could find evidence of microbial life within the next 10–20 years. What does that mean? Where are we ...

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system, detecting in an alien ...

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

On Thursday the U.S. president ordered the release of federal files related to UFOs and aliens, although no evidence of extraterrestrials visiting Earth is known to exist ...