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 ...
Along with other recent discoveries, the new finding from Perseverance boosts the case that Mars once hosted conditions that ...
Scientists have uncovered a previously unknown Martian rock containing a mineral never before found on the Red Planet.
Once it was clear that the finding was most likely real, the team took a closer look at the chemistry of the material nearest ...
For years, Mars has sat in an awkward middle ground, too geologically quiet to look like Earth. At the same time, it is too ...
Deep oceans of magma once sloshed about inside the crust of Mars, seismic measurements taken by NASA's InSight mission ...
NASA's Perseverance rover has spotted an oddball rock in an ancient river channel on Mars. Deputy project scientist Katie Stack Morgan explains. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS Cristiano Ronaldo ...
NASA's Perseverance rover has spotted an oddball rock in an ancient river channel on Mars. Deputy project scientist Katie Stack Morgan explains. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS Watch this Komodo ...
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, ...