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.

Indeed, part of the Mars2020 mission is to search for signs of life and any biosignatures preserved in the rock. Planetary geologists have long studied Jezero, marking it as a potential landing ...

NASA prepares to land Perseverance rover on Mars 09:43. A week after two space probes from China and United Arab Emirates slipped into orbit around Mars, NASA's $2.4 billion Perseverance rover, by ...

NASA's next Mars rover should hunt for signs of past Red Planet life and collect samples for eventual return to Earth, a team of mission planners has determined. The new Mars rover — slated to ...

Perseverance rover, Ingenuity helicopter, and the search for ancient life on Mars 13:33. We first told you about the tiny helicopter Ingenuity and the one-ton rover Perseverance nearly a year ago ...

So, instead of going for surface-level tests, we may need to dig deeper in our hunt for signs of life on Mars. In fact, NASA says we may need to dig up to 6.6 feet (or two meters) deep to find ...

If all goes according to plan, the arrival of NASA’s Perseverance rover on February 18, 2021, will mark the end of an era in Mars exploration. The first era began in 1964 when Mariner 4, the ...

The goal of NASA’s Curiosity rover is to determine if Mars was ever capable of supporting life. But the Agency’s next rover, set to launch in 2020, could take things one giant step further.

NASA’s Mars 2020 rover will launch in July 2020 and land at the Red Planet’s Jezero Crater in February 2021 (Mars is 140 million miles from Earth, after all).

NASA safely landed a new robotic rover on Mars on Thursday, beginning its most ambitious effort in decades to directly study whether there was ever life on the now barren red planet.. While the ...

NASA’s next mission to Mars will be its most advanced yet. But if scientists discover there was once life – or there is life – on the Red Planet, will the public be able to handle such an ...