When astronauts set foot on Mars, it will be one of humanity’s greatest milestones, marking the start of a new era of ...

Some Las Vegans have been looking to the sky for hints of alien life for decades, but UNLV geoscience professor Libby Hausrath has gotten closer than any of them to finding sound proof. This isn’t any ...

Cyanobacteria were long thought to need the sun to survive. But a new study suggests otherwise and hints at fresh ...

NASA has long been searching for definitive signs of life on Mars, and it seems like NASA’s Perseverance rover has found the clearest signs yet in the form of some green, blue, black, and white dots ...

They’re not completely sure. They never are. But this time, they’re pretty sure. Or, at the very least, sure enough to alert the media. Scientists monitoring the Perseverance Mars rover mission have ...

The rover’s science instruments found that the formation’s sedimentary rocks are composed of clay and silt, which, on Earth, are excellent preservers of past microbial life. The findings were made ...

Rolling across the rugged, rusty red terrain on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover came upon some rocks with peculiar green, blue, black and white dots. After detailed image analysis, scientists have ...

ROXBURY — The Minor Memorial Library in Roxbury is hosting NASA Solar System Ambassador William Cloutier as he presents a follow-up talk on the MARS 2020 Mission: “Six More Wheels on Mars” Sept. 29 at ...

New research reveals that ancient Mars once hosted vast river drainage systems comparable in scale to some of Earth’s major ...

The discovery was made by analysing sounds from the atmosphere of the red planet obtained by the Perseverance rover.