The phenomenon of seeing familiar patterns in objects where none exists is called pareidolia. In terms of our evolution, it ...

A rock filled with veins has caught the attention of NASA scientists peering through footage from NASA's Perseverance ... be ...

Rovers sent to Mars have so far failed to detect life, likely because it doesn’t exist on the Red Planet. But we can’t say ...

Finding life on another planet would be a world-changing discovery for humanity. But actually detecting it is no simple task.

Is or was there life on Mars? That profound question is so complex ... landed in 2012 and began ascending Mount Sharp, the 18,000-foot-high mountain located inside Gale crater.

Human ambition to want to know as much as possible about everything around us in space is something that could already be considered historical. Advances are continuing and NASA's ...

We have wondered for centuries whether our neighbouring planet is home to life, just like our own. In the 19th century, the idea of men on Mars took off after astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has collected a sample from Mars that has textures “unlike anything we’ve ever seen before.” Known ...

Now stationed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, Dr Allwood is one of seven scientists tasked with finding evidence of life on Mars via the next Mars Rover, due to be ...