A rock containing many smaller round stones could indicate that there was once a large amount of liquid water on the Red ...

WASHINGTON — A mineral called siderite found abundantly in rock drilled by a NASA rover on the surface of Mars is providing fresh evidence of the planet's warmer and wetter ancient past when it ...

Such discoveries suggest water once flowed beneath Mars' surface. On Earth, sulfate minerals can preserve microscopic fossils of microbes. Finding similar structures on Mars could indicate past life.

The discovery has fueled speculation about the possibility of past or present extraterrestrial life beneath Mars' surface. While NASA continues to manage expectations, stressing that microbial ...

But researchers writing in the journal IMA Fungus say they reckon lichens could survive on Mars today, despite the planet's barren surface. Lichens are a strange "symbiotic" relationship between ...

The rover's findings offer insight into the carbon cycle on ancient Mars. (File) A mineral called siderite found abundantly in rock drilled by a NASA rover on the surface of Mars is providing ...

Mush wrote in the post. The tech billionaire quoted a post by X user named Curiosity @MAstronomers showing rover images of Mars' surface. The announcement comes a month later when Musk revealed an ...

The Perseverance rover has captured footage of a rare phenomenon on the surface of Mars. Two Martian dust devils were observed interacting, providing an unprecedented view of the Red Planet's ...