Dirk Schulze-Makuch is a scientist who thinks NASA's Viking landers could have inadvertently destroyed the life they were ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover spots a scattering of bizarre bright white pebbles of a mysterious composition and origin.

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.

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

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

The two robots, working alone and far apart from one another, are struggling on their respective treks along the Red Planet's rough terrain.

"Bottom line, somebody in the Trump administration is going to say 'we want NASA and the private sector to collectively, as ...

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.

The unlikely journey that brought the Lafayette Meteorite to Purdue University’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and ...

Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch believes that humans may have unintentionally killed life on Mars in the 1970s.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is reducing its workforce by 5 percent, or 325 employees, amid budget cuts and issues with ...