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

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

Planetary scientists recently simulated an alternate version of our solar system: one with a super-Earth causing climate ...

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

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

Curiosity has just finished the latest leg of its 12-year Mars mission and will now set out to explore miles of web-like ...

When Vikings landed on Lindisfarne’s shores in 793, slaughtering the local English populace and pillaging the monastery of ...

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

Our Sun, the celestial body that has nurtured life on Earth for billions of years, is not eternal. This massive ball of gas ...

Was Mars just like Earth billions of years ago? A new study is making a very compelling case that our Martian neighbor may ...

Curtin University scientists discover 4.45-billion-year-old evidence of water activity on Mars, hinting at early habitability ...

A zircon crystal from a Martian meteorite unlocks secrets of a water-rich, dynamic Mars 4.45 billion years ago.