Nasa's perseverance rover makes major Mars breakthrough: Key building blocks of ancient life found

NASA's Perseverance rover has uncovered one of the most intriguing clues yet in humanity's search for life beyond Earth.
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"Like The Top Of A Martian Honeycomb": NASA's Curiosity Rover Discovers Odd, Polygonal Structures On Mars

Investigating an area of interesting light rock seen from orbit, Curiosity found some particularly weird-looking structures.

Scientists Warn Mars Samples May Need a Lunar Quarantine Before Coming to Earth, Here's Why

A new study proposes examining Mars and other space samples on the Moon before bringing them to Earth, arguing it would ...

Skywatch: As Viking mission anniversary looms, the search for Martian life lives on

NASA’s Viking 1 lander set down in the Chryse Planitia region of Mars. Its identical twin, Viking 2, followed on Sept. 3 of ...

We Could Seed Alien Life Elsewhere in the Universe—But We’ll Never Undo the Devastating Consequences, Scientists Caution

Thus far, our search for extraterrestrial life points toward Clarke’s former point, suggesting that our little blue dot is ...

We Could Seed Alien Life Elsewhere in the Universe—But We’ll Never Undo the Devastating Consequences

Could humans spread Earth life beyond our planet? Astrobiologists explain where extremophiles might survive and why the risks ...
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Seven organic molecules never seen before on Mars just turned up inside a single rock — and one is a precursor to DNA

Something incredible has been hiding in Mars’s frozen deserts. It’s taken over 10 years for one robot to pick it up. But it took an engineering feat and a high-stakes gamble to bring it to light. An ...

The making of Independence Day at 30: ‘I panicked and raced to set to rewrite’

The makers of the blockbusting sci-fi thriller reveal how they made a hit, why Kevin Spacey was almost involved and what went wrong with the sequel ...