Along with other recent discoveries, the new finding from Perseverance boosts the case that Mars once hosted conditions that ...

Imagine you've just gotten to Mars as part of the first contingent of settlers. Your first challenge: build a long-term habitat using local materials. Those might include water from the polar caps ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has uncovered one of the most intriguing clues yet in humanity's search for life beyond Earth.

NASA's Perseverance rover has found a diverse menagerie of organic molecules in a Martian crater, a new study reports. Organic compounds are molecules composed of carbon, and often include other ...

NASA needed somewhere to keep its rockets for the missions to the moon decades ago. But that location is still being used for ...

Two samples from Mars together deliver the "smoking gun" in a new study showing the origin of Martian organic material. The study presents solid evidence for a prediction made over a decade ago by ...

Scientists have detected complex organic matter in an ancient river valley on Mars, specifically within Jezero Crater. This ...

The fact that the cold, dry Mars of today had flowing rivers and lakes several billion years ago has puzzled scientists for decades. Now, researchers think they have a good explanation for a warmer, ...