Mars is no longer just a story about a single lost ocean or one fleeting window for biology. Taken together, recent rover ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

Astronomers said they had found "undepleted phosphine," a molecule associated with life, on Earth in the atmosphere of a brown dwarf. Astronomers were astonished to find an abundance of phosphine, a ...

Astrophysicists have found phosphine (PH₃) in the atmosphere of a brown dwarf star, Wolf 1130C, located 54 light-years away from Earth. This is the first confirmed detection of phosphine across all ...

Perseverance took a selfie after filling a sample tube with a rock core from the arrowhead-shaped rock nicknamed Cheyava Falls. The small, dark hole in the rock is where the core sample was drilled.

NASA’s Perseverance rover has added fresh clues in the search for life on Mars. It has found signs in Martian rocks that remind scientists of conditions linked to life on Earth. The new study was ...

As the Perseverance rover traversed an ancient river valley in Mars' Jezero Crater back in July 2024, it drilled into the surface and extracted a sample from a unique, striped rock called Cheyava ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Amy J. Williams, University of Florida (THE CONVERSATION) As the Perseverance rover ...

A sample collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover from an ancient dry riverbed in Jezero Crater could preserve evidence of ancient microbial life. Taken from a rock named “Cheyava Falls” last year, ...

A sample collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover from an ancient dry riverbed in Jezero Crater could preserve evidence of ancient microbial life. Taken from a rock named “Cheyava Falls” last year, ...