The redemption of Viking: Did the 50-year-old mission to Mars find life or not? How NASA’s 1975 mission to Mars led to decades of scientific controversy and confusion over the existence of life on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The surface of Mars, as ...

Seek signs of life on the red planet and collect rock and soil samples to bring back for a potential return to Earth. Today you can track the Perseverance Rover online while it trundles around Mars, ...

As the search for life on Mars continues – with promising potential biosignatures identified last year by NASA at the Bright Angel formation – there are a few scientists out there who think we may ...

Fifty years ago, NASA’s Viking missions to Mars made groundbreaking attempts to detect life on the Red Planet. While the missions initially returned negative results, a new study published in the ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American We humans can now peer back into the virtual ...