The Mars rover captured images of low ridges called boxwork patterns, which appear like spiderwebs from space.

On Earth, that trio — hydrogen, oxidants and shuffling iron — can sustain microbes living far below the surface and far from ...

Similarly, a separate study shows that NASA’s clean room—used for the Phoenix Mars lander mission—also contained 26 novel bacteria species.

FILE - This image made available by NASA shows the Jezero Crater area on the planet Mars, captured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Ancient Mars may have had an environment capable of harboring ...

A deceptive difference having to do with Earth's and Mars's gravity may be the reason why NASA's rovers get stuck in the ...

Perseverance has uncovered unusual, basalt-rich Martian spherules that likely formed in violent explosions—either from ...

The prestigious research journal cites a change of standards to dismiss a NASA study that claimed to have discovered a bacterium that thrives on arsenic ...

RELATED STORIES — — — Single-celled microorganisms, such as bacteria, might also be able to survive on Mars if they were sheltered from radiation, living underground.

As detailed in a NASA-funded study, scientists are designing strains of Pseudomonas bacteria to detoxify Mars’ perchlorate-contaminated soil and convert atmospheric nitrogen, laying the ...

Similarly, a separate study shows that NASA’s clean room—used for the Phoenix Mars lander mission—also contained 26 novel bacteria species.