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 ...
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 ...
On8, 2013, NASA launched the MAVEN spacecraft to Mars. The name MAVEN stands for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN. The ...
Schulze-Makuch suggests focusing on hygroscopic salts like Mars's sodium chloride, which absorbs moisture and could support ...
A grassy field next to NASA's Johnson Space Center is getting an otherworldy makeover. Officials gathered Friday to celebrate ...
Back in 2007, I talked with Rob Manning, engineer extraordinaire at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and he told me something shocking. Even though he had successfully led the entry, descent, and ...
The seasonal variations of methane in the Martian atmosphere is an intriguing clue that there might be life hiding under the ...
NASA Insight mission's seismometer data of a meteor slamming into Mars has been converted into sound. The meteor broke into multiple pieces during its entry into Mars atmosphere and created at least ...