In all our explorations of Mars to date, no evidence has been found that meets the rigorous standards to claim that we have ...

TL;DR: NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft, which landed on Mars in 1975, aimed to test for life using water-based methods.

NASA's Viking missions in the 1970s were groundbreaking, marking the first time humanity sent spacecraft to Mars with the ...

Despite decades of exploration, no conclusive evidence of life on Mars has been found—though past missions may have come ...

Dirk Schulze-Makuch believes NASA's Viking 1 may have harmed potential Martian life through its water-based detection methods ...

Mars may have hosted life billions of years ago, a possibility that has long intrigued scientists. Now, new evidence suggests ...

Dirk Schulze-Makuch is a scientist who thinks NASA's Viking landers could have inadvertently destroyed the life they were ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover spots a scattering of bizarre bright white pebbles of a mysterious composition and origin.

The images of the 'saucer' were caught by a NASA helicopter orbiting Mars, with experts on the technology used to snap it ...

Firming up plans to go to Mars would be fine, so long as it is not done at the expense of returning to the moon.

Despite the team's success in dating the water-rock interaction, the researchers don't think Mars was teeming with water at ...

Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch believes that humans may have unintentionally killed life on Mars in the 1970s.