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

You’ve probably followed the Mars rover missions on and off for years, watching those red-dust landscapes scroll across your ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA scrapped its $11 billion plan to return samples from Mars to Earth by 2040. It now has not one but two new options to choose ...

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 ...

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

Tests conducted with tardigrades suggest that there is something in Martian dirt that dramatically reduces biological ...

Alien life might have flourished in ‘vacation-style beaches’ on Mars, scientists say - Red Planet may have supported alien life for tens of millions of years, scientists say ...

Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant life might be present there. And then we can search for changes in a planet’s ...

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 ...