NASA's Perseverance rover will scour the Jezero region for fossilized remains of ancient microscopic life and collected samples will be returned to Earth.
A new study has breathed some fresh air in the former theories that meteorites brought water and other precursors for life to our planet billions of years ago.
In his book Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth' Avi Loeb lays out his theory about a space object that entered our solar system a few years ago.