For generations, the question of whether life exists beyond Earth has captivated humanity. On Mars, faint traces in ancient ...

A 3.5-billion-year old rock discovered on the Red Planet is "the closest we've come to discovering ancient life on Mars," according to NASA. Potential signs of microbial life were found in a rock ...

Over four years since it landed on Mars, NASA's Perseverance Rover might have made serious headway in its mission to find signs of ancient microbial life on the planet. Last July, the autonomous ...

On Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover has detected chemical signatures in rocks similar to those created by microbial life on Earth. The minerals found,vivianite and greigite, appear in a structured ...

We could be one step closer to proving alien existence. In 1996, a group of NASA scientists made a stunning announcement: The discovery of what appeared to be bacterial fossils on Mars. President Bill ...

The most enthralling rock yet found on Mars—a speckled hunk of mudstone that just may contain evidence of ancient alien life—is still worth getting excited about. The rock in question is packed with ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA says a rock sample collected by its Perseverance Mars rover in the Jezero Crater may contain evidence of ancient microbial life on Mars. The rover discovered a rock ...

A mudstone sample from Jezero Crater shows textures and minerals that on Earth often form through microbial activity. Scientists caution that nonbiological processes could also explain the features, ...

Billions of years ago, Mars’ Jezero Crater held a lake fed by rivers that could have carried minerals and maybe even organic matter. On Earth, places like that are teeming with microbial life. NOVA is ...

Scientists at NASA said Mars may have been able to support life and that the Mars Rover program has found rocks that may contain evidence of something living on the red planet. A new study published ...