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

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

ESA's Rosalind Franklin rover will investigate possible signs of life in Martian clay.

Without digging or drilling, Perseverance rover turned up a rich trace of complex carbon on the bare face of a Martian rock.

Half a century after NASA first placed working hardware on Mars, the agency is preparing to explore not only the planet’s surface, but its skies. The story began on July 20, 1976, when Viking 1 ...

British scientists have made a major breakthrough in the search for life on Mars, discovering evidence that rivers of molten ...

Breakthroughs increasingly hinge not on finding something new, but on recognising what was​ missed. A leading scientist tells us why it matters ...

Life on Mars and How to Find It, is an example of his doing just that: Benner ... Continue reading this article with an NRPLUS subscription. It’s back! Get six months of NRPLUS for $17.76! Already a ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took this selfie on July 23, 2024, the 1,218th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. To the left of the rover near the center of the image is the arrowhead-shaped rock ...

Louis Friedman is co-founder and former executive director of the Planetary Society. The three big questions about life — What is life? How did life originate? Is there extraterrestrial life? (Are we ...

An instrument on the Perseverance rover has identified large, complex carbon compounds alongside unusual patterns on the surface of rocks that resemble traces of microbial activity ...