"This experiment's never been run before on another world," said Amy Williams, an astrobiologist working on the Curiosity ...

Scientists think they are looking at chemical building blocks of life preserved for 3.5bn years ...

A NASA rover has discovered more building blocks of life on Mars after carrying out a chemistry experiment never before conducted on another planet, scientists said Tuesday.

The largest section of the space rocket that will launch the next moon mission has been shipped to the Kennedy Space Center.

NASA confirmed Thursday that SpaceX will launch the European Space Agency’s Rosalind Franklin Mars rover, perhaps as soon as ...

Several of the newly identified molecules are considered foundational to life’s chemistry.

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has uncovered a diverse mix of organic molecules on Mars, including chemicals widely considered ...

Finding life on Mars might be closer than we thought. NASA’s Curiosity rover has yielded promising data from the Red Planet, ...

A colony of an Aspergillus fungus growing in a petri dish. (sarahlai/iNaturalist/CC BY-NC 4.0) The next mission to Mars could ...

"I am completely humbled by this mission," writes Lisa Fitzpatrick, "and it has left me wondering, what the heck am I doing ...

On November 13, NASA launched a new unmanned mission to Mars under the name ESCAPADE, short for Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers. The launch was met with fairly little fanfare in ...

China's mission to retrieve samples from Mars will advance to the flight model development phase within this year, Liu ...