In an investigation to find out what sparked life on Earth, researchers have discovered that RNA formed through surprisingly ...

Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to ...

HE WAS the child genius who claimed to be the reincarnation of a Martian, shocking the world with tales of spaceships, ...

Evidence is mounting that the same basic chemistry that made Earth habitable is unfolding, or once unfolded, on Mars. From ...

In a quiet corner of an ancient riverbed on Mars, a speckled rock has pushed the search for extraterrestrial life into its ...

Mars looks familiar from afar, but surviving there means creating a protective oasis in a hostile world. Instead of shipping ...

Mars once had sprawling river systems that rivaled major watersheds on Earth, and scientists have now identified the biggest ...

New research explores how microbes could turn Martian soil into building material and support life systems, offering a potential path for constructing human habitats on Mars using local resources ...

No place on Earth has the exact conditions we see on Mars. Scientists believe the Red Planet once had rivers with flowing water. Today, though, the planet’s surface is an arid wasteland with an ...

Humans have long imagined life on Mars, but what if the red planet actually delivered life to Earth in the first place?

Life on Mars may have been found — before it was accidentally destroyed during a NASA mission nearly 50 years ago, one scientist has suggested. In 1975, just six years after Apollo 11 touched down on ...

The potential for sending payloads and people to Mars is therefore becoming plausible in a way that it never has before. Mars ...