A new study from NYU Abu Dhabi has found that high-energy particles from space, known as cosmic rays, could create the energy ...

Learn how cosmic rays, normally seen as a threat to humans in space, may be sustaining life beneath the surface of Mars and ...

The camera moves slowly over a surface that seems deserted and silent. There is no visible life, only dusty terrain ...

Donald Trump plans to scrap Nasa's Mars Sample Return mission – stranding test tubes on the Red Planet and ceding potentially ...

In 2023, NASA embarked on an intriguing mission to simulate life on Mars, where four volunteers spent over a year confined to a Martian habitat replica. While the scientific focus was on survival and ...

An ancient rock discovered on Mars, using equipment partially developed in New Mexico, could answer key questions scientists have about the possibility of past life on the planet. But the sample could ...

We might be looking for life on Mars in the wrong place, scientists suggest. Extraterrestrial life is more likely to be lurking in Mars' ice than on its rocky surface, according to a new paper in ...

Mars' global magnetic field may have hung around for 200 million years longer than scientists had thought, possibly giving life a longer window to take hold on the Red Planet.

Mars, the other world, followed a different path. Today the Martian surface is hostile to life as we know it, but as this scientific story goes, Mars may have once hosted a rich abundance of microbes.

The second half of the 19th century was a particularly interesting time to imagine Mars. This was a period during which the red planet seemed to be ready to give up some of its mystery. Astronomers ...

The hopes of finding life on Mars took a new turn in 1996. In August, a team of scientists from NASA and Stanford University announced that a Mars meteorite found in the Allan Hills of Antarctica ...

It’s easy to get excited about the prospect of finding life on Mars—so easy that scientists have been getting worked up again and again and again and again over the past century and more. But ...