Martian lake beds and deltas reveal the Red Planet’s watery past. But many puzzles remain, scientist Bruce Jakosky says.

This finding challenges our current understanding of Mars as a perpetually cold, dry world. The team found more than 4,000 of these white rocks and pebbles scattered across the Martian surface.

A crewed mission to and from Mars may include an exciting array of enabling biotechnologies that leverage inherent mass, power, and volume advantages over traditional abiotic approaches. In this ...

According to scientists, Lake Salda is the only place on Earth that’s analogous to the Jezero Crater on Mars. It’s a fact that has piqued the interest in space scientists at a time when ...

Mars’ red dust contains ferrihydrite, linked to past liquid water Scientists recreated Martian dust to understand its composition Findings reshape theories on Mars’ climate history and habitability ...

But while Viking history in Cumbria is well-documented, archaeologists have unearthed few buildings, likely because later settlements and dwellings were built over the same sites. That makes the ...

Eric Clapton has announced a brief run of U.S tour dates for September, with support from the Wallflowers. The six-date trek begins on Sept. 8 in Nashville and concludes on Sept. 20 in Uncasville ...

Fast forward to today, a new paper tackles and reconsiders the results of the Viking Biology experiments. "The discovery of perchlorate on Mars by the Phoenix mission has provided a basis for ...

The most significant change since those 1970's experiments were conducted was the discovery of high levels of perchlorate on Mars. Perchlorate, plus abiotic oxidants, explains the Viking results ...

If life exists on other planets, it needs to be adaptable to extreme environments. To get a clue of what it might look like, we can turn to a surprising place: the human gut.

A cutting-edge space instrument has detected microbial fossils in Earth’s gypsum — offering hope that Mars rovers could one day find the same. If traces of life exist in Martian sulfate rocks, we may ...