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

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

Here's a look at the best (and worst) Mars landings of all time: Mars 2, a lander built by the former Soviet Union, has the double-edged distinction of being the first human-built object ever to ...

On Oct. 19, the Schiaparelli lander entered the Martian atmosphere ... NASA released two images showing where the spacecraft likely landed, which show a new black spot on the Martian surface.

Ginny's photos have gone on to inform the future of space science, ensuring safer landings for spacecraft such as the Mars ...

Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch believes that humans may have unintentionally killed life on Mars in the 1970s.

Dirk Schulze-Makuch is a scientist who thinks NASA's Viking landers could have inadvertently destroyed the life they were ...

What to know about SLIM: Japan's lunar lander still powers away ... carved into the ice below. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance ...

The European-led Mars lander is approaching the Red Planet as part of the ExoMars mission between the European Space Agency and Russia's Roscosmos. The lander will be searching for signs of alien ...

By the 1980s and early 1990s the Space Race had cooled down, the bean counters moved in, and aside from the spectacular images ... lander suffered what is being written up today as the first bug ...