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.

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

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

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

This storage vessel later detaches from the spacecraft for the return journey back to Earth, the researchers wrote in the ...

That effect may be concerning as it involves Musk’s Mars ambitions. Hitherto, Artemis has been envisioned to send astronauts ...

"We think the water came from the melting of nearby sub-surface ice called permafrost, and that the permafrost melting was ...

A sliver of Martian rock that once lay hidden in a university drawer has helped researchers better understand the Red ...

The Lafayette meteorite was discovered in a drawer at Purdue University in 1931, with no clear indication of how it got there ...

Despite the team's success in dating the water-rock interaction, the researchers don't think Mars was teeming with water at ...

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.