NASA's Viking missions to Mars may have inadvertently eliminated Martian life. The missions used water in experiments to ...

A German astrobiologist suggests that humans might have inadvertently wiped out Martian life nearly 50 years ago, during NASA ...

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.

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

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.

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

NASA may have unintentionally destroyed potential life on Mars during the Viking missions in the 1970s, according to Dirk ...

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