WITH a politically incorr­ect anti-hero, the time-travelling police drama Life On Mars proved a sensation when it launched 20 ...

NASA's plans for Mars sample return are effectively cancelled as part of a bill approved by the U.S. Congress, ending efforts ...

A study by scientists at Penn State and NASA shows that intact biomolecules from dormant microbes break down much more slowly ...

It’s 20 years since the debut of time travel police drama Life on Mars, a show that hit TV screens like a Ford Cortina smashing through a stack of cardboard boxes and screeched into the metaphysical ...

Scientists propose using ice as a building material for Mars habitats, offering protection from radiation while allowing ...

We could be one step closer to proving alien existence. In 1996, a group of NASA scientists made a stunning announcement: The discovery of what appeared to be bacterial fossils on Mars. President Bill ...

Mars-like shock and chemical stress reveal ribonucleoprotein condensates as a key survival mechanism in yeast. Life on Mars, ...

Mars is no longer just a story about a single lost ocean or one fleeting window for biology. Taken together, recent rover results and orbital studies now point to a planet that may have been welcoming ...

This experiment shows how starkly different conditions on Mars are.

A mudstone sample from Jezero Crater shows textures and minerals that on Earth often form through microbial activity. Scientists caution that nonbiological processes could also explain the features, ...