Right now, Mars is a reddish desert landscape – attractive ... These would be nothing like E.T. – they would look more like the simplest terrestrial single-celled organisms.

A computer-generated rendering of what life on Mars might look like one day in the future. Framestock – stock.adobe.com “The only question was when the final curtain would fall,” he says.

Two NASA rovers on Mars recently made two independent discoveries further indicating that ancient life may have once existed ...

In 2015, NASA's Curiosity rover spotted what appeared to be a wooden spoon, floating in midair with a shadow on the ground beneath it. It was, of course, an optical illusion; the spoon is simply a ...

They look like a dish of lentils, or a mass of spider eggs on a leaf. But whatever they are, these tiny little brown blobs, newly-found on the surface of Mars, have left scientists baffled.

A strange rock covered in tiny spheres may hold secrets to Mars’ watery — or fiery — past.

Martian lake beds and deltas reveal the Red Planet’s watery past. But many puzzles remain, scientist Bruce Jakosky says.

During these enchanted moments, Mars looks like a map covered with lines and dots and patches. The vision vanishes in a flash, long before the observer can note what he is seeing. On many such ...

Warm spells on Mars may spark massive dust storms, scientists say, bringing us closer to predicting Martian weather. Today’s ...

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red planet. The ...