Scientists believe intriguing leopard spots on a rock sampled by the Perseverance rover on Mars last year may have ...

NASA announced in September 2025 that it had found life on Mars.

We'll likely need to get Perseverance's samples to Earth to determine if they do indeed harbor evidence of Mars life —but the ...

Ancient organisms may have left microscopic "biosignatures" on Mars. That's according to NASA scientists, who say a rock ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover found possible signs of ancient life in rocks on Mars, keeping scientists up at night.

In the face of such harsh conditions, the crazy idea of terraforming Mars is gradually taking shape in laboratories. The 'Mars Dome' project proposed by MIT envisions covering specific areas with a ...

Payload Systems Inc., a Cambridge-based provider of specialized science and engineering services for spaceflight and research programs across the globe, this week announced that it has been awarded a ...

Missions carrying humans to Mars will require on-site resources, and a project led by Planetary Science Institute (PSI) scientists Nathaniel Putzig and Gareth Morgan is mapping the availability of ...

Tracing the history of our obsession with Mars, from modern efforts to colonize to belief in a Martian civilization.

Four volunteers have emerged from NASA's simulated Mars environment after more than a year spent on a mission that never actually departed Earth. The volunteer crew members spent more than 12 months ...