Life on Mars: An astrobiologist suggests that NASA's Viking missions in the 1970s may have inadvertently eliminated potential Martian life....

Researchers suggested a new method to warm Mars by injecting engineered nanoparticles into its atmosphere, potentially increasing temperatu...

Rocks collected by Perseverance are filled with organic molecules, and they formed in a lake that would have been habitable a few billion y...

The instrument works through electrolysis, which uses extreme heat to separate oxygen atoms from molecules of carbon dioxide, which account...

NASA's Perseverance rover prepares for touchdown on the Red Planet Thursday to search for telltale signs of microbes that might have existe...

Over the past two years, there has been a lot of debate over the presence of “liquid water” on Mars. On September 28, a study in ‘Nature’ c...

Washington, June 8 (IANS) NASA's Curiosity rover has discovered "tough" organic molecules in three-billion-year-old sedimentary rocks near ...

The researchers from Imperial College London in the UK concluded that there could be nearly 12,000 Olympic sized pools of organic matter on...

"These were very different, co-existing environments in the same lake," said Joel Hurowitz of Stony Brook University in the US.

New York, June 2 (IANS) An ancient Martian lake had conditions suitable for different types of microbes to survive, according to a new rese...

New York, Dec 14 (IANS) NASA's Curiosity rover has detected boron for the first time on the surface of Mars, indicating the potential for l...

New York, Sep 13 (IANS) NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has sent back spectacular colour images of layered rock formations on the Red Planet.

The new images represent Curiosity's last stop in the Murray Buttes, where the rover has been driving for just over one month.

MAVEN is the first mission devoted to understanding how the sun might have influenced atmospheric changes on the Red Planet.

In science fiction, we find humans harvesting fields of wheat under terraformed Martian skies and growing rows of potatoes inside climate-c...

In a clue to possibility of life below the surface of Mars, a team of researchers has discovered traces of methane in Martian meteorites.

Much of Curiosity's first year on Mars was spent investigating outcrops in a low area of Gale Crater called "Yellowknife Bay".