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Half a century after the first successful Mars landing, Viking's greatest legacy may be the questions it taught us to ask.

Is there life on Mars?,’ asked David Bowie, and would not stay for an answer. The astrobiologist Steven Benner ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has once again found itself at the center of an extraordinary alien theory after a resurfaced image ...

Without digging or drilling, Perseverance rover turned up a rich trace of complex carbon on the bare face of a Martian rock.

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took this selfie on July 23, 2024, the 1,218th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. To the left of the rover near the center of the image is the arrowhead-shaped rock ...

ESA's Rosalind Franklin rover will investigate possible signs of life in Martian clay.

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An instrument on the Perseverance rover has identified large, complex carbon compounds alongside unusual patterns on the surface of rocks that resemble traces of microbial activity ...