A mysterious and pre-teased NASA conference from the Perseverance team has gone live and announced their findings: the "clearest sign of life that we've ever found on Mars". Earlier this week, NASA ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA has found potential signs of life on Mars, the agency said last Wednesday. Although additional scientific study is needed in ...

New method reveals chemical signs of early microbial life in ancient Earth rocks, showing photosynthesis evolved much earlier than believed.

NASA announced Wednesday that a rock sample collected on Mars by its Perseverance rover last year contains what appear to be biosignatures, or signs of previous life, on the Red Planet. “This very ...

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New observations fail to confirm signs of life in the atmosphere of the distant planet K2-18b. They also raise questions about what it will take to detect biology light-years away. By Carl Zimmer In ...

In the search for signs of life on what seemed like a promising little exoplanet, astronomers’ hopes have dimmed. Living things, as we understand them, seem to flourish best in an atmosphere like the ...

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Martian mudstones contain features that NASA says are the "clearest sign of life" yet on Mars, according to new findings from NASA’s Perseverance rover released Sept. 10. Specifically, the stones show ...