The rock, Clinton said, “speaks to us across … billions of years and millions of miles. It speaks of the possibility of life.

Some Las Vegans have been looking to the sky for hints of alien life for decades, but UNLV geoscience professor Libby Hausrath has gotten closer than any of them to finding sound proof. This isn’t any ...

A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return from Mars. We checked in with the UNLV astrobiologist leading the specimen ...

Recent studies have unveiled compelling evidence suggesting that Mars once hosted vast oceans. Analyzing soil samples and satellite imagery, scientists have pieced together a picture of the Red Planet ...

As NASA is set to land the Perseverance rover on Mars on Thursday, part of the rover’s mission is to take a sample of Martian soil and return it to Earth someday. While samples of the Moon have been ...

The Phoenix Mars lander unstowed its robot arm last week with some difficulty. Initial tests by instruments aboard the Mars lander indicate that there is a 1.5-inch layer of soil with interesting ...

On day one of this administration, the president included his ambitions for Mars in his inaugural address, and again several weeks later to a joint session of Congress: “We are going to conquer the ...