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

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

Dirk Schulze-Makuch believes NASA’s Viking 1 may have harmed potential Martian life through its water-based detection methods ...

In 1976, NASA made history when its Viking landers became the first U.S. spacecraft to safely land on the Red Planet. These ...

The Viking landers of the 1970s may have come close to finding life on Mars but could have unintentionally destroyed it. A ...

TL;DR: NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft, which landed on Mars in 1975, aimed to test for life using water-based methods.

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

Could we have already found life on Mars—and accidentally destroyed it in the process? A jaw-dropping theory from a leading ...

In 1975, NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft and its two landers began searching for signs of life on Mars. While initial tests hinted ...

In 1975, NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft entered orbit around Mars, carrying a mission to unlock the secrets of the Red Planet. Soon, it released twin landers that drifted toward the Martian surface ...