We may be one step closer to answering the most tantalizing cosmic question: Are we alone? Our loyal robotic explorers have been scouring Mars for evidence of life since the 1970s, when the Viking landers may have found and even destroyed it, according to one hypothesis.

We may be one step closer to answering the most tantalizing cosmic question: Are we alone? Our loyal robotic explorers have been scouring Mars for evidence of life since the…

An instrument on the Perseverance rover has identified large, complex carbon compounds alongside unusual patterns on the surface of rocks that resemble traces of microbial activity

Perseverance identifies organic carbon molecules in rocks on riverbed that carried water billions of years ago

"Measurements of two mudstones show hundreds of organic detections, making this the most robust organic detection in Jezero crater."