NASA recently announced that its Perseverance Mars rover discovered rock material containing potential biosignatures, with ...

Because all earthly life shares a common origin, finding a second tree of life would forever change humanity’s understanding ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover found possible signs of ancient life in rocks on Mars, keeping scientists up at night.

Using data from the Mars Perseverance rover, scientists say they’ve found the best evidence yet of ancient life on Mars.

Learn why scientists are cautiously optimistic about the potential biosignatures found in the Sapphire Canyon rock sample.

In fairness to the Perseverance rover, this is exactly what it was built for. Nicknamed Percy, the machine was sent to Jezero ...

Unusual chemical compounds found on rocks on Mars could be a sign that life once existed on the red planet, though researchers have cautioned the evidence is far from conclusive.

In Jezero Crater’s Bright Angel formation, Perseverance has found rocks rich in organic molecules and minerals linked to ...

Jezero Crater’s rocks reveal three stages of water activity, shifting from hostile acidic fluids to more life-friendly ...

Researchers who examined data from Perseverance found that the rocks contained organics that could have been the precursors ...

A sample obtained by NASA's Perseverance rover of rock formed billions of years ago from sediment on the bottom of a lake ...