What can the climate history of Mars teach scientists about whether the Red Planet once had the ingredients for life as we ...

Researchers have successfully grown green algae in a specialized bioplastic “shelter” designed to mimic Mars. The Harvard ...

The BriefPresident Trump’s proposed NASA budget redirects focus from moon missions to Mars exploration.Central Florida ...

Mars is thought to currently have all the necessary ingredients for life except for perhaps the most important one — liquid ...

A lab experiment that simulated Mars conditions showed that green algae can grow in plastic containers made from the same ...

New research shows how Mars may have undone its own habitability, while Earth stayed stable enough to support life.

“Mars is exciting, and still may have signs of life,” Andrew Steele, a Carnegie Institution staff scientist who has investigated the Mars rock, said in a statement at the time.

The agency’s Mars 2020 rover, set to launch next summer, will be the first to collect samples of Martian material to send back to Earth.But if scientists discover biosignatures of life in Mars ...

The second half of the 19th century was a particularly interesting time to imagine Mars. This was a period during which the ...

To put pieces of Mars in the hands of scientists will require a lander to retrieve the samples; a probe to bring them home; and then an ultra-secure storage facility that will keep Earth life from ...

Finding evidence of life on Mars has been a goal for astronomers for several years now, with multiple rovers launching to explore the barren fourth planet from the Sun. Now, though, after years of ...