The organic molecules could come from life or from ordinary chemistry — only samples returned to Earth can settle it.

On Earth, garnet is best known as the fiery red January birthstone—popular in jewelry since the Bronze Age and valued highly ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has confirmed macromolecular carbon in two ancient mudstones in Jezero Crater, the widest organic ...

Once it was clear that the finding was most likely real, the team took a closer look at the chemistry of the material nearest ...

Scientists have uncovered a previously unknown Martian rock containing a mineral never before found on the Red Planet.

Along with other recent discoveries, the new finding from Perseverance boosts the case that Mars once hosted conditions that ...

A rock sample collected by the Mars Perseverance rover could help answer the question of "whether Mars was home to microscopic life," according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Credit: ...

It was America’s bicentennial, July 4, 1976, and NASA was hoping not to see fireworks. After a 10-month traverse through space, the Viking 1 lander was ready to become the first spacecraft to operate ...

Bill Harwood has been covering the U.S. space program full-time since 1984, first as Cape Canaveral bureau chief for United Press International and now as a consultant for CBS News. On Wednesday, ...

STARBASE, Texas — During a presentation, SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk shared how he plans to use Starship to reach the planet Mars, and how in a few short years, there is a chance humans could ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered the most extensive evidence yet of complex organic molecules on Mars, detecting ...