A Harvard scientist's bizarre theory that an ancient Martian civilisation was wiped out by a nuclear attack is gaining fresh ...

Fifty years ago, scientists recovered samples of potential extraterrestrial life, but may have unintentionally destroyed it ...

A stunning discovery on Mars has revealed the longest organic molecules ever found on the planet—carbon chains that could ...

Both moons are made mostly from rock and iron and may have once been asteroids that got captured by Mars' gravitational pull. NASA scientists think life may have once been plentiful on Mars ...

A recent experiment has shown that certain lichen species can remain metabolically active in an environment similar to that ...

The efforts made by humans to learn as much as possible about Mars are numerous ... to expand what the possible scenarios of microbial life may have been. In short, a surprising discovery that ...

For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that certain lichen species can survive Mars-like conditions, including exposure to ionising radiation, while maintaining a metabolically active state ...

The discovery is one of the most significant findings in the search for evidence of past life on Mars. This is because, on Earth at least, relatively complex, long-chain carbon molecules are ...

The molecules cannot currently be confirmed as evidence of past life on the red planet, but they add to the growing list of compounds that robotic explorers have discovered on Mars in recent years.

These results challenge the assumption that ionizing radiation is an insurmountable barrier to life on Mars and set the stage for further research on the potential for extraterrestrial microbial ...