Researchers discovered that chloride-rich depressions in Mars' Terra Sirenum region likely harbored water, creating potential ...

Dr. Dirk Schulze-Makuch believes his research into extremophiles in the Atacama could help NASA re-assess its search for ...

The essential ingredient for life, water, appeared on both planets around 4.4 billion years ago, new research indicates.

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

The Acidalia Planitia region of the Red Planet might have all the requirements for methane-burping bacteria to exist beneath ...

"The experiments performed by NASA's Viking landers may have accidentally killed Martian life by applying too much water," ...

Scientists have found what seems to be the oldest direct evidence of hot water flowing on Mars during its ancient past. The ...

When Vikings landed on Lindisfarne’s shores in 793, slaughtering the local English populace and pillaging the monastery of ...

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In “A City on Mars,” Kelly and Zach Weinersmith investigate what life would be like for humans on the red planet, arguing ...

The search for signs of life on Mars has taken another intriguing turn, after scientists claim to have discovered the remains ...

In 2011, the United States launched an Atlas V rocket to look for life on Mars. Aboard was the rover Curiosity, which would ...