In September, NASA announced the discovery of a possible sign of life, known as a potential biosignature, on Mars. The Perseverance rover, which has been exploring a dried-up lakebed for years, found ...

They once pulsed with alien power, forged in the heart of a dragon's starship and bound to the fingers of a conqueror. In the early days of Marvel Comics, the Ten Rings were tools of science ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has spent years combing Jezero Crater for subtle traces of ancient microbes, but one of its most arresting finds is something far more blunt: a rock that simply does not ...

The Mars Perseverance rover has been investigating the Jezero Crater and came across something that is not native to Mars at all. It is a meteorite that collided with the red planet. Though various ...

A small rock from space recently slammed into the flank of Apollinaris Mons, a volcano near Mars’s equator, and set loose a cascade of dust. When the dust settled, more than a hundred fresh dark ...

Experts find that time moves faster on Mars by microseconds each day. Credit: Kevin M. Gill / CC BY 2.0 / Flickr Time on Mars ticks slightly quicker than it does on Earth, and scientists say this ...

The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...

New imagery uncovers striking glacial traces that show Mars once endured a far-reaching ice age. Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin New Mars Express images show grooves, ridges, and crater patterns carved by ...

Mini-lightning strikes created by whirling dust devils on Mars have been detected accidentally by the microphone on board the Perseverance rover. The chance discovery is direct evidence of a form of ...

The Perseverance rover on Mars has serendipitously recorded sounds and electromagnetic signals that are characteristic of lightning in dust storms. Daniel Mitchard is at the Lightning Laboratory, ...