ESA's Rosalind Franklin rover will investigate possible signs of life in Martian clay.

Without digging or drilling, Perseverance rover turned up a rich trace of complex carbon on the bare face of a Martian rock.

Breakthroughs increasingly hinge not on finding something new, but on recognising what was​ missed. A leading scientist tells us why it matters ...

British scientists have made a major breakthrough in the search for life on Mars, discovering evidence that rivers of molten ...

Did Viking 1 find evidence of life on Mars? Fifty years after the NASA lander touched down, the jury is still out.

Half a century after the first successful Mars landing, Viking's greatest legacy may be the questions it taught us to ask.

Half a century after NASA first placed working hardware on Mars, the agency is preparing to explore not only the planet’s surface, but its skies. The story began on July 20, 1976, when Viking 1 ...

Nasa's latest Mars discovery brings us closer to finding alien life. Perseverance has found deep deposits of complex carbon compounds, strengthening the case for a once-habitable Red Planet ...

The redemption of Viking: Did the 50-year-old mission to Mars find life or not? How NASA’s 1975 mission to Mars led to decades of scientific controversy and confusion over the existence of life on ...

WASHINGTON, March 18 (Reuters) - Using ground-penetrating radar, NASA's Perseverance rover has detected underground remains of an ancient river delta on Mars in some of the oldest evidence yet ...

An instrument on the Perseverance rover has identified large, complex carbon compounds alongside unusual patterns on the surface of rocks that resemble traces of microbial activity ...