While Curiosity mission scientists have previously identified small, simple organic molecules on the red planet, the ...

"Shorelines are great locations to look for evidence of past life." Today, Mars is a chilly desert of rock and dust — but 4 billion years ago, the planet had rivers, lakes and even oceans with sandy ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has found possible hints of ancient life on Mars ― one of the strongest signs yet of Martian life, according to planetary scientists. Dark-rimmed ‘leopard spots ...

Mars may have once hosted an ocean with waves ... even the remains of an ancient river delta, studied by NASA’s Perseverance rover, have shown how water once shaped the Martian landscape.

The Perseverance team have faced a stubborn engineering challenge. After successfully collecting a core called "Green Gardens" from the "Tablelands" location, the rover struggled to seal the ...

and Mars Express project scientist, in the same release. “Some of the samples already collected by NASA’s Perseverance rover and awaiting return to Earth include dust; once we get these ...

The yellow star is the site of NASA's Perseverance rover, which landed a few months before Zhurong. (Credit: Robert Citron) Ancient Mars may have been a beach ... Along the entire route, the GPR ...

Professor Manga said it would be "lovely" to run a Mars mission to excavate and analyse the rocks. "The Perseverance Rover is collecting samples with the eventual goal of returning them [to Earth ...