NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image in 2021. NASA and the European Space Agency announced plans Thursday to search for signs of life on Mars.

NASA's Perseverance Rover has achieved a major milestone in its mission to search for signs of ancient microbial life on Mars by successfully collecting the first Mars sample on Thursday, March 30.

NASA has sent a host of remotely-operated landers, orbiters and rovers to study Mars and bring back geologic samples. While no humans have set foot on the planet, that could change. NASA has ...

Scientists long urged NASA to search for signs of life near Jupiter. Now it’s happening An illustration of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft flying near the icy moon, with Jupiter in the ...

Unlike its predecessor Curiosity, NASA’s Perseverance rover is explicitly intended to “search for potential evidence of past life,” according to the official mission objectives.. Jezero ...

As NASA's Perseverance rover inches along on Mars in search of hints of ancient life that may have once flourished there, scientists back home are honing their skill to identify such signs by ...

NASA has until Nov. 6 to launch the probe and is currently waiting for Hurricane Milton to pass over Florida's Space Coast. Once the spacecraft leaves its Cape Canaveral launchpad, it begins a ...

According to Graham, and everything NASA has discovered so far, signs of life on Mars could very well have been possible in the past. However, in the planet’s current state, life on the surface ...

ESA’s ExoMars rover will join an orbiter launched in 2016 on a mission to search for evidence of past life on Mars. Credit: ESA WASHINGTON — NASA and the European Space Agency have completed ...

Sean McMahon has received funding from Nasa. While we go about our daily lives on Earth, a nuclear-powered robot the size of a small car is trundling around Mars looking for fossils. Unlike its ...

By 2013, NASA had just finished dealing with cost overruns on the Curiosity Mars Rover and the agency was focused on getting the James Webb Space Telescope into space.