On Earth, these kinds of markings are usually linked to microbial life. Could this be true for Mars?

NASA's Curiosity rover found pure sulfur crystals inside a rock after backing over and accidentally crushing it on May 30, ...

Along with other recent discoveries, the new finding from Perseverance boosts the case that Mars once hosted conditions that ...

Once it was clear that the finding was most likely real, the team took a closer look at the chemistry of the material nearest ...

Scientists have found garnet in a Martian meteorite for the first time, raising new questions about what kind of geological ...

NASA's Perseverance rover snaps a selfie with the "Cheyava Falls" rock that has inspired discussions about potential life ...

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

On July 4, 1997, NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission arrived on Mars and began transmitting images from the surface of the Red ...

On Earth, garnet is best known as the fiery red January birthstone—popular in jewelry since the Bronze Age and valued highly ...

In 2024, NASA's Mars rover Perseverance collected an unusual rock sample. The rock, named Sapphire Canyon, features white, leopardlike spots with black borders within a red mudstone and might hold ...

This story was updated on May 5 at 9 a.m. ET. Beneath their rugged exterior, some Martian rocks could have hid life in the ancient past, scientists suspect. An examination of data gathered by NASA's ...

Garnet found in a 4.4-billion-year-old meteorite gives potential insight into the history, development and geological ...