The organic molecules could come from life or from ordinary chemistry — only samples returned to Earth can settle it.

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The Mars rover with its innovative wheels, which can ‘swim’ through sand, modelled on a desert lizard. Credit: Marco Schmidt / University of Wuerzburg, Germany A Sahara desert lizard has inspired a ...

NASA has officially ended the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission, six months after it lost contact with the probe. MAVEN was the agency's first program dedicated to studying the ...

NASA has officially lost a decade-old Mars orbiter that performed vital scientific and communications work at the Red Planet. The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission, which launched ...

Bill Harwood has been covering the U.S. space program full-time since 1984, first as Cape Canaveral bureau chief for United Press International and now as a consultant for CBS News. On Wednesday, ...

NASA will begin to decommission Maven, a Mars orbiter, which unexpectedly went silent in December 2025 after more than a decade of operations at the Red Planet. Credit: Lockheed Martin A healthy NASA ...

After six months of radio silence, NASA’s Maven spacecraft at Mars has been declared dead. Limited time: Save 25% on NBC News subscription Get exclusive reporting, live Q&As and ad-free reading. The ...

These are heady days for NASA and the space industry. The Artemis 2 crew flew around the moon, traveling farther into space than any humans previously had; NASA announced an ambitious new schedule for ...

New research suggests Mars may have remained habitable much longer than scientists once thought. Ancient sand dunes in Gale Crater appear to have been soaked by underground water billions of years ago ...

A few days with the new 2022 Range Rover provide the basis for this side-by-side comparison with the previous L405 model. The video looks at day-to-day ownership impressions and how the latest Range ...

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft has been orbiting Mars since September 2014. Credit: NASA/GSFC WASHINGTON — NASA has formally ended a Mars mission that has been out of contact for six months while the ...