Mars’ Jezero Crater holds signs of ancient water and strange mineral reactions, some linked with organic compounds. With ...

An ancient DNA analysis of the remains of several mastodons, including those which roamed along the Pacific and Atlantic ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover found possible signs of ancient life in rocks on Mars, keeping scientists up at night.

Was there ever life on Mars? Planetary scientists think there could have been but there hasn’t been any direct evidence.

Hidden for 95 million years beneath layers of sediment, the remarkablywell-preserved skull of an ancient legged snake species ...

Scientists believe intriguing leopard spots on a rock sampled by the Perseverance rover on Mars may have potentially been ...

NASA has announced that a sample collected on Mars by its Perseverance rover may contain evidence of ancient microbial life ...

A new study suggests a habitable past and signs of ancient microbial processes on Mars. Led by NASA and featuring key ...

Using metagenomic screening — a technique for sequencing genetic material in samples that contain genomes from a mixture of ...

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the timeline of human evolution. Far from a straight line, early human history was ...