NASA's plans for Mars sample return are effectively cancelled as part of a bill approved by the U.S. Congress, ending efforts ...

In a quiet corner of an ancient riverbed on Mars, a speckled rock has pushed the search for extraterrestrial life into its most tantalizing phase yet. NASA now says the layered stone, drilled by the ...

Hints of ancient microbes in Martian rocks and a revived theory about our cosmic ancestry are forcing scientists to rethink where the story of life really began. Instead of a warm little pond on early ...

A study by scientists at Penn State and NASA shows that intact biomolecules from dormant microbes break down much more slowly ...

"The structures that we were able to identify in the images are clearly the mouth of a river into an ocean." The post ...

Ancient shoreline features hint that water on Mars once formed a vast ocean.

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Scientists propose using ice as a building material for Mars habitats, offering protection from radiation while allowing ...

The findings potentially solve the paradox of how liquid water seems to have persisted on Mars even when the climate grew too ...

Advances in technology have reopened the debate over terraforming Mars, shifting it from an impossible dream to a long-term scientific and ethical question.

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