Life's capacity to survive in simulated lunar and Martian soils has been explored in two papers published in Scientific ...

A bacterium already famous for shrugging off extreme radiation and desiccation has now passed another brutal test: surviving ...

Strange, sinuous gullies etched into the dunes of Mars are finally giving up their secrets. These gouges, new experiments reveal, are carved by the explosive sublimation of dry ice, burrowing down the ...

Scientists studying Mars may have uncovered a brand-new mineral hidden in the planet’s ancient sulfate deposits. By combining laboratory experiments with orbital data, researchers identified an ...

Humans could have come from Mars, scientists have said. A study by Johns Hopkins University has found that alien microbes ...

A potential new mineral on Mars forms when iron sulfates are heated above 100°C. Data from Valles Marineris regions suggest ...

Hardy bacteria in a lab survived pressures comparable to an asteroid strike on the red planet, suggesting a hypothetical scenario in which our planet was seeded with life.

The idea that life can spread from world to world dates as far back as ancient Greece and the philosopher Anaxagoras.

Life on Mars may have been found — before it was accidentally destroyed during a NASA mission nearly 50 years ago, one scientist has suggested. In 1975, just six years after Apollo 11 touched down on ...

A radio glitch Tuesday between the Phoenix Mars Lander and a Mars orbiter delayed the start of planned science experiments on the red planet. Mission leaders at the University of Arizona had hoped to ...

The way this document is written suggests that when NASA scores bidders for the Mars Telecommunications Network, the addition ...