Mars’ Jezero Crater holds signs of ancient water and strange mineral reactions, some linked with organic compounds. With ...

NASA published tantalizing evidence that the red planet once harbored life. But Trump’s proposed budget could leave the ...

Minerals in the rock might have been produced by microbes in chemical reactions, but researchers say they’ll need to examine the sample more closely to know for sure ...

Published in Nature, the study stresses that the evidence remains preliminary. NASA noted that the same mineral and chemical ...

Texas A&M University geologist Mike Tice was on the international team of scientists that analyzed data from NASA's ...

This week, NASA said scientists took the biggest step yet toward discovering whether there was ever life on Mars when a rock sample collected by the Mars rover Perseverance contained potential ...

A biosignature is any characteristic, element, molecule, substance or feature that serves as evidence for past or present life. It must be something that cannot be produced without life. Some examples ...

As a new paper in Nature reports, a sample Perseverance drilled from the rock may contain potential biosignatures of long ago microbial life.“This finding by Perseverance…is the closest we have ever ...

How is understanding the India-Nepal relations relevant to the UPSC exam? What significance do topics like the potential ...