This week in science: The most tantalizing evidence ever for life on Mars; a samurai-inspired routine for seniors; psychologists analyze what Bluey is teaching kids; and much more! Deadly Kissing Bug ...

For decades, the search for life on Mars has been a story of hints and maybes, of chemical curiosities that stopped just short of a clear biological signal. That changed this year when a single, ...

The search for life on Mars dates back about five decades, and a Sept. 10 announcement marks perhaps the most dramatic advancement yet. The news: NASA's Perseverance rover had found potential signs of ...

Recently, NASA announced that the Mars Perseverance rover has found indications that life may have at one time existed on the Red Planet. The announcement did not mark the first time the space agency ...

The rover’s science instruments found that the formation’s sedimentary rocks are composed of clay and silt, which, on Earth, are excellent preservers of past microbial life. The findings were made ...

Mars once had sprawling river systems that rivaled major watersheds on Earth, and scientists have now identified the biggest ones for the first time. Researchers mapped 16 massive drainage basins ...