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 ...

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 ...

Cold, dry, and barren: Mars doesn't look like it could be a haven for life — at least not the kind humans are familiar with. Despite the Red Planet's appearance, scientists have wondered for ...

A NASA-led study has revealed that alien life could be hiding beneath the icy layers of Mars. Scientists suggested that the ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2011, the United States launched an Atlas V rocket to look for life on Mars. Aboard was the rover Curiosity, which would explore the planet, searching for signs of life. In 2023, Irish writer ...

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 ...