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

A potential new mineral on Mars forms when iron sulfates are heated above 100°C. Data from Valles Marineris regions suggest ...

You’ve probably followed the Mars rover missions on and off for years, watching those red-dust landscapes scroll across your TV screen and wondering: Could something have lived there once? Now, after ...

Scientists have discovered traces of organic molecules on the Red Planet and are not ruling out the possibility that they were produced by living organisms.

For decades, scientists have imagined Martian life as something that might look faintly familiar, perhaps microbes not so different from those that once thrived in Earth’s ancient seas. A new wave of ...

NASA's Curiosity rover, which launched in 2011 from Florida, found signs of organic material that on Earth is most often produced by life.

“This finding by Perseverance …is the closest we have ever come to discovering life on Mars,” said acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy in a statement. “The identification of a potential biosignature ...

China’s first Mars rover, Zhurong, has provided groundbreaking insights into the history of water on Mars, showing that liquid water existed on the planet much later than scientists previously ...

A new NASA analysis concludes that it is "reasonable to hypothesize" that living things could have formed the odd organic ...

Samples taken from an ancient Mars rock may indicate that ancient life once existed on the Red Planet, according to a study ...

Has there ever been life on Mars? Scientists have pondered this question for years, and a recent discovery suggests it just might be possible! NASA's Perseverance rover, which has been exploring Mars ...

New data and analysis are rewriting the biography of the Red Planet as evidences suggest that Mars could have held more water (and potential life) than previously thought, where it once hosted a ...