Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch believes Nasa's Viking missions have inadvertently 'eliminated' Martian life. He also mentioned that Martian life may have adapted to the planet's dry environment

In all our explorations of Mars to date, no evidence has been found that meets the rigorous standards to claim that we have conclusively found life. But, decades ago in the 1970s, when the Viking landers became the first US mission to safely land on and ...

In 1975, NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft made history when it entered orbit around Mars. Its mission, along with others, was to detect if microbial life was possible on the otherwise elusive red planet .To accomplish such a task two landers were released on the Martian surface,

A German astrobiologist suggests that humans might have inadvertently wiped out Martian life nearly 50 years ago, during NASA’s Viking 1 mission, which saw two spacecraft land on Mars and conduct grou

Dirk Schulze-Makuch is a scientist who thinks NASA's Viking landers could have inadvertently destroyed the life they were searching for. In this Q&A, we ask why.

NASA's Viking missions in the 1970s were groundbreaking, marking the first time humanity sent spacecraft to Mars with the goal of searching for life. Viking 1, launched in 1975, landed on the Martian surface in 1976,

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

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

An astrobiologist suggests that NASA's Viking missions in the 1970s may have inadvertently eliminated potential Martian life. The experiments, designed to detect life by introducing water, might have overwhelmed microbes adapted to Mars' hyperarid conditions.