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A new study reveals that the robots currently probing Mars might not be capable to hunt down traces of life on the Red Planet

Scientists think Mars rovers may have some blind spots when it comes to finding signs of life. Shutterstock Robotic rovers are currently exploring the surface of Mars. Part of a rover’s mission is to survey the planet for signs of life.

DNA found in the Atacama Desert shows that the "dark microbiome" might stump our instruments in the search for Martian life. 

NASA just sent the robot on its longest flight in almost a year, covering more than a thousand feet of distance, to land at its 29th impromptu airfield.

NASA's Perseverance rover celebrates its 2nd anniversary of landing on the Jezero Crater of Mars.

After completing the first sample depot on another world, the rover continues its hunt for Mars rocks worthy of study on Earth.

There are many things the latest rover to reach Mars has been tasked with doing on location. Perseverance needs to look for signs of past microbial life ...

NASA has released a composite of hundreds of images showing the locations of samples collected by the Perseverance Mars rover.

The Red Planet rover snapped a portrait of the sample depot it has assembled with 10 backup sample tubes that could be returned to Earth by a future mission.

The 10 sample tubes are strewn about the Three Forks region of Jezero Crater.