NASA's Viking missions to Mars may have discovered evidence for life on the Red Planet after all, according to scientists who ...

A new paper suggests that BARSOOM may have been alive on the planet, and was killed in the Viking experiments.

Fifty years ago, NASA’s Viking missions to Mars made groundbreaking attempts to detect life on the Red Planet. While the missions initially returned negative results, a new study published in the ...

Organic compounds found in Mars rocks are too abundant to rule out the possibility of Martian life in the red planet’s history, NASA scientists say. In March of 2025, NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered ...

We may have detected Martian life 50 years ago.

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The discovery of life on Mars is a tad closer than ever before. This month, NASA announced the discovery of signs of life on the red planet in deposits of clay and silt in a canyon.

A few weeks ago, the rover Perseverance found potential signs of life on Mars. Again. I’m getting tired of scientists getting so worked up about potential life on Mars. First, it was potential signs ...

The recent announcement that scientists have spotted what they believe to be evidence suggesting ancient life on Mars seemed like the latest in an endless cycle of tantalizing hints followed by pleas ...

The Curiosity rover is travelling along the lower slopes of Mount Sharp (Mars), a large mountain in the center of Gale Crater ...

The discovery suggests that parts of Mars may once have supported tropical-like climates, complete with heavy, sustained rainfall.