Spots on rocks on Mars offer the “clearest evidence” yet that ancient life once thrived on the Red Planet, Nasa has said.

A rock sample collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover may contain evidence of ancient microbial life, preserved for ...

Floods of unimaginable magnitude once washed through Gale Crater on Mars’ equator around 4 billion years ago. This finding hints at the possibility that life may have existed there, according to data ...

Jupiter, eat your heart out. Our planet may have ripped apart an asteroid and worn its scattered debris as a ring for a while. 466 million years ago, Earth was an alien world. Trilobites swam through ...

NASA’s Perseverance Rover spent three years exploring the floor of Jezero Crater, located just north of the Martian equator.

Tiny 1,900 million-year-old fossils from rocks around Lake Superior, Canada, give the first ever snapshot of organisms eating each other and suggest what the ancient Earth would have smelled like.

The journal Science recently published a paper that revealed that Mars' mantle consists of giant rocky fragments that emanated from the collision of celestial objects billions of years ago ...

The "clearest evidence" yet that life once thrived on Mars has been discovered, Nasa has said. Colourful spots on rocks were discovered last year by the Perseverance rover, the agency said. The Nasa ...