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

SpaceX is making preparations for yet another crucial test of its Starship rocket, which is the next generation of space ...

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 ...

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

Lasers that harness bacteria's natural ability to convert sunlight into energy could power missions to Mars and provide a ...

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.

NASA may have unintentionally destroyed potential life on Mars during the Viking missions in the 1970s, according to Dirk ...

“The United States and its allies are developing a major space program to return to the moon and establish a permanent ...

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