A German astrobiologist suggests that humans might have inadvertently wiped out Martian life nearly 50 years ago, during NASA ...

The seasonal variations of methane in the Martian atmosphere is an intriguing clue that there might be life hiding under the ...

NASA's Viking missions to Mars may have inadvertently eliminated Martian life. The missions used water in experiments to ...

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

Mars may have hosted life billions of years ago, a possibility that has long intrigued scientists. Now, new evidence suggests ...

On the second anniversary of its maiden launch, relive the moment NASA's mega moon soared skyward, sending the Orion spacecraft toward our celestial neighbor.

In all our explorations of Mars to date, no evidence has been found that meets the rigorous standards to claim that we have ...

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

Firming up plans to go to Mars would be fine, so long as it is not done at the expense of returning to the moon.

SpaceX's Starship megarocket is set to takeoff on its sixth uncrewed flight test as early as Monday evening from Boca Chica, ...

Data from China's Zhurong rover has revealed what appears to be an ancient shoreline streaking through Mars' northern ...

The Texas A&M University Space Institute will look to aid in space exploration missions, plus be a home for research and ...