ESA's Rosalind Franklin rover will investigate possible signs of life in Martian clay.

Did Viking 1 find evidence of life on Mars? Fifty years after the NASA lander touched down, the jury is still out.

The hunt for ancient life on Mars just got an important test run. Scientists confirmed that the Rosalind Franklin rover's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The astronauts at Sombra del Monte Elementary School have a plan to make it to Mars. The fifth graders built an inflatable habitat ...

Hints of ancient microbes in Martian rocks and a revived theory about our cosmic ancestry are forcing scientists to rethink where the story of life really began. Instead of a warm little pond on early ...

The redemption of Viking: Did the 50-year-old mission to Mars find life or not? How NASA’s 1975 mission to Mars led to decades of scientific controversy and confusion over the existence of life on ...

Searching for past or present life on Mars is the sole driving force behind every mission we send to the red planet, from orbiters to landers to rovers. However, there remains a concern in the ...

Dr. Roger Wiens, a professor of planetary science in Purdue’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, ...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has discovered never-before-seen organic compounds that may indicate there was once life on the red planet. The nuclear-powered robot uncovered a diverse mix of organic ...