NASA’s search for life on Mars: a rocky road for its rovers, a long slog for scientists – and back on Earth, a battle of the budget

That includes evidence of long-gone liquid surface water, life-sustaining minerals and organic molecules. To find this ... with the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover and the Mars Science Laboratory ... Read More

This Rover Plans To Search For Life On Mars: Here's How

The aim is for Europe to build its lander, with ESA working with international partners and private industry to get the rover to Mars for its exciting mission: searching for evidence of ancient life ... Read More

Antarctica: The white planet

Smith wrote a proposal to visit Antarctica in order to compare the polar regions of Mars to the ones on earth. He secured funding from NASA and the National Science Foundation, and made the trip ... Read More

Mars News

Its discovery points to an exciting new place to search for life, and ... Scientists Propose New Theory That Explains Sand Ripples on Mars and on Earth Mar. 12, 2024 — Sand ripples are symmetrical. Read More

NASA says Mars samples that may contain signs of life are STUCK on Red Planet... as it calls on private sector's help retrieving them

NASA officials have announced that they don't have a plan for bringing Martian rock samples - which could contain signs of life - back to ... then orbit Mars until another craft picked it up ... Read More

Earth-like environment likely on ancient Mars

A research team using the ChemCam instrument onboard NASA's Curiosity rover discovered higher-than-usual amounts of manganese in lakebed rocks within Gale Crater on Mars, which indicates that the ... Read More

Scientists discover Earth-like environment on Mars with mineral associated with life

NASA's Mars rover has collected data that researchers have interpreted as evidence of discovering a mineral that is closely associated with life. Read More

New findings point to an Earth-like environment on ancient Mars

A research team using the ChemCam instrument onboard NASA's Curiosity rover discovered higher-than-usual amounts of manganese in lakebed rocks within Gale Crater on Mars, which indicates that the ... Read More

NASA Is Asking for Help to Return Samples That Could Uncover Life on Mars

We need to look outside the box to find a way ahead that is both ... associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. Plans for a Mars sample return mission have been proposed ... Read More

Science and Religion

A version of this article appears in the December 10, 1927 issue of Science News. Love our Health & Medicine stories? Our coverage would not be possible without the generous support of subscribers ... Read More

How To Start A Podcast And Make Money In 2024

Her work helps small business owners find the tools and resources they need to start and ... Anyone can start a podcast, regardless of their prior work or life experience. Don’t let these ... Read More

Technology News

The government and Google are making their closing arguments in a high-stakes antitrust trial to a federal judge in Washington who must now decide whether the tech giant’s search engine ... Read More