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

Martian glaciers are mostly pure ice across the Red Planet, suggesting they might potentially be useful resources for any ...

Astrobiologist Barry DiGregorio fears astronauts on Mars could die "live on air" after being exposed to deadly alien ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...