Gypsum is a soft, translucent sulfate mineral that allows just enough light to penetrate for photosynthetic organisms to survive inside, while also protecting them from being desiccated or exposed to ...

New photos captured by NASA's Curiosity rover show that Mars' giant, spiderweb-like "boxwork" features are covered in tiny, never-before-seen nodules that bear a striking resemblance to arachnid eggs.

America was winning the race to find Martian life. Then China jumped in. In July 2024, NASA’s Perseverance rover came across a peculiar rocky outcrop on Mars covered in strange spots. On Earth, these ...

Why it matters: While not evidence of life, these discoveries show that ancient Mars had complex organic chemistry, ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has spent six months exploring the site to investigate if they are a clue to the presence of water.

American space agency NASA announced it found a new way to allow the Perseverance rover to determine its position on Mars by itself.

NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered what may be the strongest evidence yet of ancient life on Mars. Inside a 3-billion-year-old sedimentary rock from Jezero Crater, scientists identified dark ...

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The discovery of the molecules was made with Nasa’s Curiosity rover, which examined a Martian rock named Cumberland. This is ...

Astrobiologists say we could find evidence of microbial life within the next 10–20 years. What does that mean? Where are we ...

United States President Donald Trump says he’ll release government files relating to alien and extraterrestrial life.

Mars Global Localization (MGL), a tech similar to GPS on Earth, lets Perseverance nail down its coordinates to about 10 inches.