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

NASA's Viking missions to Mars may have inadvertently eliminated Martian life. The missions used water in experiments to ...

However, for years, scientists have argued that the Viking's experimental techniques might’ve killed hygroscopic microbes ...

Not every mission to Mars has been successful. Reaching Mars is a hard and unforgiving endeavor, with little room for error. A large proportion of missions launched ...

In all our explorations of Mars to date, no evidence has been found that meets the rigorous standards to claim that we have ...

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

While it may not be trendy now to be a panda-hugger, not many countries are willing to blindly trust the uncertain leadership of the United States either. China has to work on a much better ...

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 ...

China is on track to launch its Tianwen-3 mission to Mars in 2028 after estimating it would launch in 2030. Liu Jizhong, chief designer of China’s Mars mission, told the Second International ...

SAN DIEGO — "Mission to Mars," a new book released on National ... "It was about five crew members, one of them being me, experiencing some challenges," Thomas Diepstraten said, who is a 7th ...

Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch from the Technische Universität Berlin in Germany believes that humans may have ...