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

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Using a mix of China's Zhurong Mars rover's onboard instruments, scientists identified several intriguing water-related features.

For nearly 50 years, NASA has been exploring the possibility of microbial life on Mars. That investigation began with the Viking 1 lander, which entered orbit around the Red Planet in the mid-1970s.

Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch, from the Technische Universität Berlin in Germany, believes that humans may have unintentionally killed life on Mars in the 1970s. NASA's Viking 1 mission in ...

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

Within the next decade, the agency believes its commercial partners can develop vehicles to land a lunar rover and habitat on ...

Nov. 22, 2024 — New research has uncovered what may be the oldest direct evidence of ancient hot water activity on Mars, revealing the planet may have been habitable at some point in its ..

Firefly Aerospace's moon lander is ready for its upcoming lunar voyage.

NASA announced that it has selected SpaceX to provide launch services for its ambitious Dragonfly mission that will place a ...

In 1975, NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft and its two landers began searching for signs of life on Mars. While initial tests hinted at microbial activity, these were dismissed as inconclusive.

Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch, from the Technische Universität Berlin in Germany, believes that humans may have unintentionally killed life on Mars in the 1970s. NASA's Viking 1 mission in 1976 ...