A NASA study shows bacteria fragments can survive 50 million years in Martian ice. Pure ice, not rock, could hold clues to ...

Jamie Foster, the assistant director of the Astraeus Space Institute at the University of Florida, spoke at the Flagler Tiger ...

Experiments show that biomolecules trapped in pure ice could withstand the harsh radiation of Mars for tens of millions of ...

"We have found a habitable environment," said John Grotzinger, project scientist for the Curiosity mission. "The water that was here was so benign and supportive of life that if a ...

Mars is closer than ever, but the human body isn’t ready. Inside the biological war against radiation, microgravity, and ...

With the advent of commercial spaceflight, an increasing number of people may be heading into space in the coming years. Some will even get a chance ...

This is such a breakable age. Things we thought would last are, to our surprise, now in danger of shattering. You think our ...

Frozen in time, ancient microbes or their remains could be found in Martian ice deposits during future missions to the red ...

Billions of years ago, Mars’ Jezero Crater held a lake fed by rivers that could have carried minerals and maybe even organic matter. On Earth, places like that are teeming with microbial life. NOVA is ...

Perseverance rover data shows Jezero Crater once held a calm lake, leaving behind mudstones rich in organic-linked minerals. The presence of iron-phosphate and iron-sulfide nodules suggests processes ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has been exploring Mars' Jezero Crater since 2021 with the primary objective to investigate the environments that could have supported life in the past on the Red Planet. In ...

The recent announcement that scientists have spotted what they believe to be evidence suggesting ancient life on Mars seemed like the latest in an endless cycle of tantalizing hints followed by pleas ...