Did Viking 1 find evidence of life on Mars? Fifty years after the NASA lander touched down, the jury is still out.

Steven Benner’s Meet The Neighbors is an intriguing tale of misunderstood planetary biochemistry. Paul Marks is engrossed ...

In searches for past and present Martian life, some scientists say we’ve been too cautious to see what’s right in front of us ...

The recent news is that NASA’S Perseverance rover has detected complex molecules of carbon on the surface of Mars. Carbon is an essential element of all life on Earth. However, the presence of carbon ...

Half a century after the first successful Mars landing, Viking's greatest legacy may be the questions it taught us to ask.

The hunt for ancient life on Mars just got an important test run. Scientists confirmed that the Rosalind Franklin rover's sophisticated instrument can detect subtle differences in two stable molecules ...

Along with other recent discoveries, the new finding from Perseverance boosts the case that Mars once hosted conditions that could support living things—but it isn’t a definitive sign of ancient organ ...

NASA and the European Space Agency are building the Rosalind Franklin rover to drill 2 metres into Martian ground and search ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Deep oceans of magma once sloshed about inside the crust of Mars, seismic measurements taken by NASA's InSight mission suggest.

Did Mars once harbor life? NASA's Perseverance rover has just detected long carbon chains in two samples of Martian rock, a discovery that strengthens this possibility. Collected in Jezero Crater, ...

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Pauline Hanson has declared Muslim migration is the “elephant in the room” in Australia, insisting that her approach has ...