But onboard the Mars rover, SHERLOC takes advantage of this phenomenon to help identify the presence of different organic ...

Following the 1990s discovery that Mars had once been a watery oasis in the solar system’s habitable zone, NASA devised a ...

Perseverance rover detects potential organic molecules on Mars SHERLOC instrument identifies signals suggesting organic ...

A scientist suggests that NASA's experiments in the 1970s may have destroyed traces of life on Mars, according to the ...

HOPES of finding traces of alien life in the universe have been scuppered yet again. And this time on asteroid Ryugu, a space ...

On November 26, 2011, the NASA Curiosity rover launched to Mars. Curiosity was the biggest and most powerful rover anyone had ...

Despite the team's success in dating the water-rock interaction, the researchers don't think Mars was teeming with water at ...

A Martian rock that could hold the signs of life is exciting scientists like Katie Stack Morgan, a research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the deputy project scientist of the Mars ...

Astrobiologist claims NASA's 1976 Viking mission may have unintentionally killed Martian microbes by drowning or incinerating ...

Through the intricate study of lava tubes—caves formed following volcanic eruptions when lava cools down—an international ...

Australian and European planetary scientists have found grains of minerals in the famous Martian meteorite "Black Beauty" ...

Mars has been a fascination to us for centuries. Early observations falsely gave impressions of an intelligent civilisation ...