Nearly half a century after NASA’s Viking landers touched Mars, one question shadows their experiments: Did they miss life, ...

Half a century after NASA first placed working hardware on Mars, the agency is preparing to explore not only the planet’s surface, but its skies. The story began on July 20, 1976, when Viking 1 ...

The findings could completely change which planets are seen as potential hosts for life.

NASA's Viking 1 mission blazed a crucial trail with its Mars landing on July 20, 1976. Now, half a century later, that trail ...

Half a century after the first successful Mars landing, Viking's greatest legacy may be the questions it taught us to ask.

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took this selfie on July 23, 2024, the 1,218th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. To the left of the rover near the center of the image is the arrowhead-shaped rock ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captured this image of a rocky area nicknamed “Cheyava Falls” on July 18, 2024, showing black “poppy seed” and larger “leopard spot” features. Researchers say a sample ...

Recently, NASA revealed exciting details of new findings from Mars. Scientists have discovered tiny patterns of unusual minerals in the clay-rich rocks on the edge of Jezero Crater—an ancient lake ...

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NASA has announced that a sample collected on Mars by its Perseverance rover may contain evidence of ancient microbial life Perseverance took the sample from a rock named Cheyava Falls in a dry ...

For anyone who has ever wondered whether they could handle life on another planet, NASA is offering a chance to find out – ...