NASA is reserving a small amount of space on a Mars telecommunications spacecraft for science, which could be one or more ...
A fungus pulled from NASA cleanrooms kept surviving tests that were meant to mimic nearly every stage of a trip to Mars. That ...
NASA's Curiosity rover took this selfie at a site on Mars where it drilled a sample to search for organic molecules in ...
Researchers identified a species that can survive radiation, extreme heat and simulated Martian soil, posing a new challenge ...
As space missions to Mars gain momentum, scientists are looking beyond rockets and landing systems. There is a growing focus ...
Finding life on Mars might be closer than we thought. NASA’s Curiosity rover has yielded promising data from the Red Planet, ...
NASA's Curiosity rover has identified seven new organic compounds on the planet Mars, according to new research published in ...
Scientists edge closer to answering Mars’ biggest question: Did life ever exist on the red planet? Here's the latest from two ...
Several of the newly identified molecules are considered foundational to life’s chemistry.
While scouring a 50-million-year-old crater on Mars, the Curiosity rover stumbled upon a polygon-shaped pattern that sort of ...
"This experiment's never been run before on another world," said Amy Williams, an astrobiologist working on the Curiosity ...
NASA's Curiosity rover has found a diverse mix of organic molecules on Mars, including chemicals considered building blocks ...