Lake Salda, in southwestern Turkey, bears a close resemblance to Mars' Jezero crater, which is currently being sampled by ...

Two NASA rovers on Mars recently made two independent discoveries further indicating that ancient life may have once existed ...

Curiosity found large organic molecules in a 2013 Mars rock sample. These fragments suggest Mars had the right chemistry for ...

Long-term exposure to Mars dust may pose serious health risks to astronauts, including lung damage and thyroid issues.

WELCOME to Mars – where the air is too thin to breathe and the surface temperature is too cold for unsheltered life. Yet the ...

Given that microbes helped make Earth habitable, we could use synthetic biology to engineer microbes to speed up a similar ...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red planet. The ...

In his lecture, Levine noted, the United States is planning a human mission to Mars that may begin as early as 2035. The ...

“While the dust on Mars isn’t going to be the most dangerous part of a mission to the Red Planet, it’s definitely a hazard ...

The Curiosity rover detected the largest organic molecules to date on Mars, which may be fragments of fatty acids, or some of ...

For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that certain lichen species can survive Mars-like conditions, including ...