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After more than five years of roaming the desolate and dusty landscapes of the Martian surface, NASA’s Perseverance rover has come across some of the most intriguing evidence yet of ancient microbial ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has uncovered one of the most intriguing clues yet in humanity's search for life beyond Earth.

An instrument on the Perseverance rover has identified large, complex carbon compounds alongside unusual patterns on the ...

The organic molecules could come from life or from ordinary chemistry — only samples returned to Earth can settle it.

Scientists propose building a lab on the moon to screen Mars and other space samples for alien microbes before they ever ...

A Stanford scientist's model suggests many small rocky planets can't sustain atmospheres, potentially explaining the scarcity ...

Researchers have looked at how particular microbes from Earth would fare in conditions like those of Mars, the moon, and the ...

A new exoplanet model screens rocky worlds by their ability to retain atmospheres over geologic timescales, helping narrow ...