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

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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By the end of this year, NASA may have a new plan in place for returning samples from Mars. The agency announced in October that it had convened an outside panel of experts to review a dozen ...

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

Tens of millions of miles from home, NASA's Curiosity rover has shared what it's grateful for this Thanksgiving ...

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 ..

Early results from Viking experiments hinted at potential signs of life, sparking excitement. However, over time, researchers dismissed the findings as false positives, attributing them to ...

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 ...

China's Zhurong rover has found evidence of an ancient Martian ocean, sparking debates about water history on Mars. This ...