NASA’s Curiosity rover has spent six months exploring the site to investigate if they are a clue to the presence of water.
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured images of hilly terrain on Mars, described by scientists as resembling spiderwebs from orbit, which provide clues about the planet’s watery past.
Why it matters: While not evidence of life, these discoveries show that ancient Mars had complex organic chemistry, ...
NASA's Perseverance rover can now pinpoint its exact location on Mars without help from Earth, paving the way for longer, ...
Mars’ frozen ice caps may be time capsules for ancient life. Lab experiments show that key building blocks of proteins can survive tens of millions of years in pure ice, even under relentless cosmic ...
American space agency NASA announced it found a new way to allow the Perseverance rover to determine its position on Mars by itself.
NASA’s Curiosity has explored a peculiar terrain on Mars that has no such equivalent on Earth. Seen from space, this ...
Searching for past or present life on Mars is the sole driving force behind every mission we send to the red planet, from orbiters to landers to rovers. However, there remains a concern in the ...
NASA’s Curiosity rover has found the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars. The discovery was made in 3.7-billion-year-old rocks inside Gale Crater. These molecules show that ancient Mars ...