Samples taken from an ancient Mars rock may indicate that ancient life once existed on the Red Planet, according to a study ...

Scientists may be one step closer in their hunt for signs of past life on Mars after the Curiosity rover's latest find.

Yet another tantalizing clue. The post NASA Running Out of Non-Life Explanations for What Its Rover Found on Mars appeared ...

“This finding by Perseverance …is the closest we have ever come to discovering life on Mars,” said acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy in a statement. “The identification of a potential biosignature ...

The idea of Mars being host to extraterrestrial life, either currently or long ago in the past, has beguiled scientists for centuries. The discovery of frozen water on the Red Planet gave scientists ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA has found potential signs of life on Mars, the agency said last Wednesday. Although additional scientific study is needed in ...

NASA's Curiosity rover takes in a desolate view of Mars at Gale crater in 2021. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech Cold, dry, and barren: Mars doesn't look like it could be a haven for life — at least not the ...

A new paper suggests that BARSOOM may have been alive on the planet, and was killed in the Viking experiments.

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 down on ...

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 1976 ...

A former chief historian of NASA reflects on the history and future of Mars exploration Roger D. Launius The original 'Face on Mars' image taken by NASA's Viking 1 orbiter that resembled a human face ...