Scientists may be one step closer in their hunt for signs of past life on Mars after the Curiosity rover's latest find.

Scientists confirm that clocks on Mars run faster than on Earth and will change global space navigation in the future ...

This week in science: Mysterious molecules on Mars are tricky to explain without life; a compound that cuts cholesterol as a ...

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

In a new study, researchers say that nonbiological sources they considered could not fully account for the abundance of ...

Imagine you're all alone, driving along in a rocky, unforgiving desert with no roads, no map, no GPS, and no more than one phone call a day for someone to inform you exactly where you are. That's what ...

Perchlorate, a toxic substance found in Mars dirt, could help the bacterium Sporosarcina pasteurii strengthen bonds between particles of regolith.

Fifty years ago, NASA’s Viking missions to Mars made groundbreaking attempts to detect life on the Red Planet. While the ...

SpaceX shifts focus to creating a self-growing lunar city before Mars, according to Elon Musk. Additionally, radar data from NASA's Magellan spacecraft has unveiled a large underground lava tube on ...

A vast underground tunnel known as a lava tube, formed from ancient volcanic activity, was recently discovered lurking beneath Venus.