The Perseverance rover has been exploring Jezero Crater for years, but it's never found an otherworldly object quite like ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...

The most exciting rock known to science is a school-desk-sized chunk of mudstone currently stuck on Mars. Formed from fine, water-washed sediments on the floor of a long-lost lake—some 3.5 billion ...

Fresh orbital images and new geological analysis have revealed eight mysterious caves on Mars that appear unusually well suited to protect traces of life. Together, these caverns, portals and ...

Now in its eighth year, the Universal Composers Initiative seeks to find artists from both traditional and non-conventional ...

Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to ...

Mars once had sprawling river systems that rivaled major watersheds on Earth, and scientists have now identified the biggest ...

Archaeologists in Mexico discovered a rare 1,400-year-old cube-shaped skull, revealing ancient cranial modification practices ...

In 1998, paleoanthropologist Ronald Clarke and his research team discovered the skull of a previously unknown human ancestor ...

A human skull was found in Coney Island, police say. The gruesome discovery was made Tuesday afternoon. Police said they got a 911 call at around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday from a man who had been walking on ...