The barren red deserts of Mars might not be as lifeless as they seem. A growing number of researchers are pointing to strange ...

Was there ever life on Mars? Planetary scientists think there could have been but there hasn’t been any direct evidence.

The agency’s scientists are still not saying they found fossils of Martian microbes, but analysis of the specimen collected ...

“This finding by Perseverance …is the closest we have ever come to discovering life on Mars,” said acting NASA administrator ...

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

Has NASA's Perseverance rover at long last found evidence that life did indeed once exist on Mars? Here's what we know.

Potential signs of microbial life were found in a rock sample collected by the rover in 2024 from an ancient dry riverbed on ...

Minerals in the rock might have been produced by microbes in chemical reactions, but researchers say they’ll need to examine the sample more closely to know for sure ...