Life is tenacious and the universe is vast, so some are confident that extraterrestrial life is hiding out there. These ...

According to experts at the University of Oxford, the planet known as HD 20794 d has a mass six times greater than Earth's ...

Perseverance is pushing the limits of Martian science by using its SHERLOC instrument to detect organic compounds, but harsh ...

Searching for small fossils in big rocks requires specialized tools --tools that scientists could also use to look for ...

A US company successfully landed its spacecraft on the Moon on Sunday, marking only the second private mission to achieve the ...

However, even though dust covers everything on Mars, it’s difficult to study and presents an enigma, said Briony Horgan, co-investigator on the Perseverance rover mission and professor of ...

A new study, based on data from China’s Zhurong rover, gives the ‘clearest evidence yet’ that billions of years ago, Mars had vast oceans, with buried coastlines beneath its now barren and ...

The research, led by Jianhui Li from Guangzhou University in China, involved Chinese and American scientists analysing data from China’s Mars rover, Zhurong. Zhurong’s findings provide an ...

The researchers claim to have found beach deposits from an ancient Martian ocean. Rovers exploring Mars study many aspects of the planet, including the geology, soil and atmosphere. They're often ...

Data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and ground-based measurements from Mars rovers Curiosity, Pathfinder, and Opportunity were also used. Scientists drew upon this information in laboratory ...

Related: Europe’s first Mars rover will use nuclear-powered heaters. ] This new analysis combining spacecraft observations with some newly developed laboratory techniques shows that Mars’ red ...

together with ground-based measurements from NASA Mars rovers Curiosity, Pathfinder and Opportunity, also helped make the case for ferrihydrite. "We eagerly await the results from upcoming ...