As the Perseverance rover traversed an ancient river valley in Mars' Jezero Crater back in July 2024, it drilled into the surface and extracted a sample from a unique, striped rock called Cheyava ...

NASA’s Perseverance has reported the detection of macromolecular carbon in Martian mudstones. The detection comes from the ...

Have you ever had your cheek fat measured? I have. I wish it was just cheek fat. I also hopped on a 360-degree body scanner and had a pair of metal calipers taken to my knee, chin, stomach, hips, and ...

Just because we can find ozone in the atmosphere of other planets doesn't mean there's life. Ozone is a sign of life on Earth, but its detection on Venus shows that it can also be produced abiotically ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. Apr 25, 2025, 08:11pm EDT Apr 27, 2025, 05:35pm EDT This ...

Billions of years ago, environmental conditions on Mars were significantly more hospitable than they are today. Our ...

In the early 1960s, the independent scientist James Lovelock worked as a consultant for NASA developing ways to analyse extraterrestrial atmospheres. This work led him to the dramatic conclusion that ...

Recent controversies bode ill for the effort to detect life on other planets by analyzing the gases in their atmospheres. In 2020, scientists detected a gas called phosphine in the atmosphere of an ...

New laboratory data indicates that if the gas phosphine is on Venus, it could come from deep in the planet’s interior. Reading time 3 minutes A team of planetary scientists said that if there is ...