Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to ...

For decades, the search for life on Mars has been a story of hints and maybes, of chemical curiosities that stopped just ...

NASA has discovered strong evidence for ancient life on Mars, a potentially groundbreaking finding for humanity. In this ...

No place on Earth has the exact conditions we see on Mars. Scientists believe the Red Planet once had rivers with flowing water. Today, though, the planet’s surface is an arid wasteland with an ...

A newly identified region on Mars may hold the key to future human landings. Researchers found evidence of water ice less ...

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, just six years after Apollo 11 touched down on ...

The idea of Mars being host to extraterrestrial life, either currently or long ago in the past, has beguiled scientists for centuries. The discovery of frozen water on the Red Planet gave scientists ...

As NASA plans for long-term human missions beyond Earth, one question keeps resurfacing: how do you sustain life in places ...

It’s one small step for man, one potential giant leap for Martiankind. Scientists have identified a region on Mars that could support living organisms, potentially bringing us a step closer to ...

The recent announcement that scientists have spotted what they believe to be evidence suggesting ancient life on Mars seemed like the latest in an endless cycle of tantalizing hints followed by pleas ...

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