NASA scientists are hoping to understand the history of where they found the rocks — and for evidence of ancient microbial ...

Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch believes Nasa's Viking missions have inadvertently 'eliminated' Martian life. He also ...

NASA's Curiosity rover says farewell to the funky sulfur stones of the Gediz Vallis channel with an immersive panorama view from Mars.

Life on Mars may have been found — before it was accidentally destroyed during a NASA mission nearly 50 years ago, one scientist has suggested.

In 1975, NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft and its two landers began searching for signs of life on Mars. While initial tests hinted ...

On8, 2013, NASA launched the MAVEN spacecraft to Mars. The name MAVEN stands for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN. The ...

NASA's earliest landers on Mars may have accidentally killed life there, says an astrobiologist. According to Dirk Schulze-Makuch from Germany's Technische Universität Berlin, the method of finding ...

Schulze-Makuch suggests focusing on hygroscopic salts like Mars's sodium chloride, which absorbs moisture and could support ...

NASA Perseverance rover's Mastcam-Z captured the Ingenuity helicopter's 54th flight on Mars last month. A camera onboard ...

China has unveiled a pioneering plan for a spacecraft to capture a can of rock samples from Mars in space and return it to Earth. The spacecraft, developed by scientists at the Institute of Aerospace ...

A grassy field next to NASA's Johnson Space Center is getting an otherworldy makeover. Officials gathered Friday to celebrate ...

The seasonal variations of methane in the Martian atmosphere is an intriguing clue that there might be life hiding under the ...