Airbus will provide the landing platform for Rosalind Franklin, which is scheduled to launch toward Mars in 2028.

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For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that certain lichen species can survive Mars-like conditions, including ...

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Curiosity found large organic molecules in a 2013 Mars rock sample. These fragments suggest Mars had the right chemistry for ...

Given that microbes helped make Earth habitable, we could use synthetic biology to engineer microbes to speed up a similar ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has stunned experts after finding some strange-looking rock composed of spherules on the surface of ...

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

A science experiment aboard NASA's Curiosity rover has found tantalizing traces of possible past life on Mars. But there ...

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