Following the 1990s discovery that Mars had once been a watery oasis in the solar system’s habitable zone, NASA devised a ...

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

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

Scientists have found what seems to be the oldest direct evidence of hot water flowing on Mars during its ancient past. The ...

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 ...

In 1975, NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft made history when it entered orbit around Mars. Its mission, along with others, was to ...

A feature of life is that it changes its surroundings, but from everything that we can see so far for Mars, the planet looks like it is dead, Mojzsis, an American-born Hungarian, told me at ...

Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch, from the Technische Universität Berlin in Germany, believes that humans may have unintentionally killed life on Mars in the 1970s. NASA's Viking 1 mission in ...

Life on Mars saw viewers immediately fell in love with the time-travelling escapades of Sam Tyler in the hit BBC drama Life on Mars. Greater Manchester Police DCI Sam Tyler (John Simm) was struck ...

Why Trust Us? When the Viking 1 lander send down twin landers to study Mars in 1976, the results returned a negative result for the possibility of microbial life. However, for years, scientists ...

geologists use to better understand the environmental conditions in which truly ancient earth life may have first formed. For decades, we have wondered whether Mars, Venus and the icy moons of ...

A Martian rock that could hold the signs of life is exciting scientists like Katie Stack Morgan, a research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the deputy project scientist of the Mars ...