Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system. Better known as Deinococcus radiodurans, this microbe is arguably the ...

NASA's Curiosity rover, which launched in 2011 from Florida, found signs of organic material that on Earth is most often produced by life.

A new NASA analysis concludes that it is "reasonable to hypothesize" that living things could have formed the odd organic molecules discovered on Mars.

A new laboratory experiment is adding weight to one of science’s strangest possibilities: that life may travel between planets. Researchers have been testing whether microscopic organisms could ...

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new ...

In a single drive, the rover rolled over 411 meters of Mars ' rocky surface. That may not sound like much, but compared to ...

New research suggests Mars may have remained habitable much longer than scientists once thought. Ancient sand dunes in Gale Crater appear to have been soaked by underground water billions of years ago ...

“This finding by Perseverance …is the closest we have ever come to discovering life on Mars,” said acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy in a statement. “The identification of a potential biosignature ...

A study of NASA’s Mars rover images has raised intriguing possibilities about extraterrestrial life on the Red Planet. Ohio University Professor William Romoser has identified what he believes to be ...

Two recent studies published in Scientific Reports explored how plants and microbes might survive in soils that mimic those found on the Moon and Mars. The results show that life may be able to grow ...

Two NASA rovers have strengthened the case that ancient Mars may have supported life. While not evidence of life, these discoveries show that ancient Mars had complex organic chemistry, long-lasting ...