Mars rover landing 2021: Perseverance is on a mission to seek new alien life. Here's how that would change the world. The discovery of long-expired Martian bacteria would permanently change ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Spotting signs of long-dead life is a tall order for a lonely robot on a faraway world, but NASA's next Mars rover should be up to the challenge, mission team members said. NASA ...

ASTRONAUTS visiting Mars could unearth a museum of alien fossils that may have belonged to an intelligent civilisation.

NASA's Curiosity rover has snapped its first images of web-like "boxwork" features on the surface of Mars. The zig-zagging ...

In a desolate rock-strewn landscape, a Mars rover picks its way gingerly across the red sand. But this is not the Red Planet – it is a quarry in Bedfordshire, where the robot that could prove ...

NASA's Curiosity Rover has tested a new technique to search for molecules that could reveal the signs of alien life on Mars. While the experiment conducted with the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM ...

Perseverance cracked open a tricky Mars rock to find water-related minerals, then zoomed across the landscape to make its ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's new state-of-the-art Mars rover, which is slated to launch into space on Saturday ...

Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth?

In May 2024, NASA's Curiosity rover stumbled upon elemental sulfur on Mars. This was a major surprise, but don't get too excited about aliens yet.

Life on Mars could be evading detection, ... The first image taken by Nasa’s Perseverance rover after landing on Mars in 2021 (Nasa) Your support helps us to tell the story.