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

Yet another tantalizing clue. The post NASA Running Out of Non-Life Explanations for What Its Rover Found on Mars appeared ...

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.

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

NASA's Viking missions to Mars may have discovered evidence for life on the Red Planet after all, according to scientists who are seeking to correct what they believe to be a 50-year-old mistake that ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Scientist analyzed molecules found on an ancient rock on the Red Planet ...

The Curiosity rover is travelling along the lower slopes of Mount Sharp (Mars), a large mountain in the center of Gale Crater ...

This isn’t the famous sample reported last September, but another with different signs of past life we’re struggling to ...