When space scientists send equipment into space, they think carefully about the risk of contaminating other worlds with ...

NASA’s Perseverance Rover has made a groundbreaking discovery of potential biosignatures in Martian rocks within the Jezero Crater, offering the most convincing evidence yet of past life on Mars.

New research using NASA's Perseverance rover has uncovered strong evidence that Mars' Jezero Crater experienced multiple episodes of fluid activity—each with conditions that could have supported life.

On Thursday 3:55 p.m. EST, NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, mission, led by UC Berkeley researchers, lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, en route to Mars ...

ESCAPADE, the first ever UC Berkeley-led planetary mission, is set to launch in early November, with scientists expecting to receive the first data from space within a few months of the launch. Short ...

14 November 2017. Mountain View, CA. The Mars Institute, the SETI Institute, and FYBR Solutions Inc. (FYBR) are announcing a new partnership with the NASA Haughton-Mars Project (HMP) for the research ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - University of Utah researchers say rocks uncovered on Mars are very similar to those in the southern part of the state, and could help scientists determine whether life existed ...