The tantalizing prospect of inspecting a mysterious monolith on the surface of Mars moon Phobos was proposed earlier this ...

Archaeologists have identified Sak Tahn Waax, the first named Maya astronomer-mathematician, in Xultun, Guatemala. His ...

NASA's Curiosity rover was built for a 2-year Mars mission. Nearly 14 years later, it is still making history in Gale Crater.

Scientists may have found the strongest hint yet that life could exist beyond Earth, and the focus is not Mars but a distant ...

Investigating an area of interesting light rock seen from orbit, Curiosity found some particularly weird-looking structures.

SEAS, saw people on the slopes of Mauna Loa volcano in Hawai’i (Picture: HI-SEAS) Nasa is asking wannabe Martians to spend a ...

Using NASA's Perseverance rover, scientists are getting a greater understanding of the nature of some of the organic carbon — ...

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Perseverance strikes again with an intriguing — yet unresolved — clue in the search for past life on Mars. In an ancient river channel, the rover detected complex organic carbon within and on rocks, ...

Researchers have looked at how particular microbes from Earth would fare in conditions like those of Mars, the moon, and the ...

A new survey of hundreds of astrobiologists reveals that, despite NASA's high-profile declarations about Mars and exoplanet K2-18b, most experts do not yet think alien life has probably been found.