NASA has discovered strong evidence for ancient life on Mars, a potentially groundbreaking finding for humanity. In this ...

Scientists will gather today to debate where NASA should next land on Mars, as the American space agency prepares a new mission in its search for life on the Red Planet. The debate comes as NASA is ...

The recent announcement that scientists have spotted what they believe to be evidence suggesting ancient life on Mars seemed like the latest in an endless cycle of tantalizing hints followed by pleas ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

The Perseverance rover has been exploring Jezero Crater for years, but it's never found an otherworldly object quite like ...

The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...

The biggest, most sophisticated Mars rover ever built – a car-size vehicle bristling with cameras, microphones, drills and lasers – was launched for the red planet on Thursday, part of an ambitious, ...

Pocock, a space scientist at University College London and a well-known BBC presenter, believes scientists will make a ...

Elon Musk unveiled SpaceX’s plan for humans to colonise Mars by 2022. The idea is to load 100 people into a spaceship just smaller than the Washington Monument, blast them to the Red Planet in a ...