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NASA's Viking landers were the first spacecraft to successfully touch down on the surface of Mars. NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP Finding life beyond the Earth would be a major scientific discovery with ...

When the Perseverance rover landed in Mars’s Jezero crater—a formation that long ago was Jezero lake—in February, 2021 it turned west. West is where the riverbeds, the deltas, the sites of ancient ...

The surface of Mars looks like an empty red wasteland. But if you look a bit closer, the remnants of an ancient alien civilization begin to take shape. At least, that's the conclusion of George J.

Has NASA found life on Mars? In a word, no. But last year, NASA's Perseverance rover found signs in an ancient rock that could point to life having existed on the Red Planet billions of years ago. And ...

The rocks are covered with unusual markings that look like leopard spots [NASA/JPL] Unusual rocks discovered on Mars contain the most tantalising evidence yet of potential past life on the Red Planet.

The lumps frozen in Mars' mantle may have been there for billions of years. Astronomers may have figured out where the mysterious blobs embedded in Mars' mantle originated. The mysterious lumps have ...