NATIONWIDE — NASA announced on Wednesday that its Perseverance Mars rover may have found signs of ancient microbial life on the red planet. During a teleconference on Wednesday morning, acting NASA ...

New laboratory studies could shed light on a rock containing potential signs of alien life that’s stranded on Mars ...

Big feelings can combine with gentle courage today. Combative Mars squares dreamy Neptune, which can blur facts and rush ...

A consortium of American scientists and engineers filed a report that stridently makes the case for putting boots down on ...

Black swans entered the public vernacular in 2007 with the publication of Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. Black swans are unexpected events, outliers ...

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Scientists have long been interested in the caves of Mars — not just because they could provide a home for future human explorers, but also because they just might harbor evidence of life on the Red ...

NASA is preparing its second year-long Mars mission rehearsal in Houston under their CHAPEA program. Four volunteers will live and work inside a 3D-printed habitat that measures about 1,700 square ...

If there is, or ever has been, life on Mars, the chances are it would exist in caves protected from the severe dust storms, extreme temperatures, and high radiation present on its surface. One place ...

Caves carved by water that once flowed beneath Mars’s surface could have been ideal for life to thrive, if it once existed on the Red Planet, and they might still preserve traces of it today. Mars is ...

A recent study proposes that future Mars missions should prioritize searching for microbial life or its preserved remains within the planet's ice, rather than in its rocks, clay, or soil. Researchers ...

Experiments show that biomolecules trapped in pure ice could withstand the harsh radiation of Mars for tens of millions of years. If life ever existed on Mars, traces of it might still be frozen ...