We have wondered for centuries whether our neighbouring planet is home to life, just like our own. In the 19th century, the idea of men on Mars took off after astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Dirk Schulze-Makuch, an astrobiologist at the Technische Universität Berlin, claims that NASA was wrong to assume that life on Mars would have ...

Now stationed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, Dr Allwood is one of seven scientists tasked with finding evidence of life on Mars via the next Mars Rover, due to be ...

Elon Musk has made a daring claim about the possibility of habitation on Mars following SpaceX team’s significant victory in their quest for affordable interplanetary travel. Musk claims that ...

Life may have emerged on Mars and Earth at the same time. That's according to new evidence found in a Martian meteorite that indicates the key ingredient for life, water, appeared on Mars around 4 ...

If there’s ever been life on Mars, she could be the one to find it ... It looks like “a storm trooper’s lunch box,” she says, but underneath the white cover is the “most complicated ...

NASA has identified mysterious "green spots" on the surface of Mars, with the exciting discovery raising the tantalising possibility of past microbial life on the planet. Although NASA has ...