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 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance has uncovered rocks in a dry river channel that may hold potential signs of ancient microscopic life, scientists reported Wednesday. They ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has detected the first aurora at Mars that’s visible to the human eye, good news for future astronauts who can savor the view on the red planet. European and U.S. scientists ...

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 idea was for our payload to get us just up to the potential biosignature designation and have the rest of the story told by instruments here on Earth." A potentially huge discovery by NASA's ...