Rovers sent to Mars have so far failed to detect life, likely because it doesn’t exist on the Red Planet. But we can’t say ...

Astrobiologists in Germany are developing a new testing device that could help tease dormant alien microbes into revealing ...

Chemotaxis, a process for chemically inducing movement in an organism, may be a crucial tool in the search for life on Mars.

Paying homage to Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy of books and to the film Interstellar, our readers consider the upsides ...

NASA shares an iconic image of carbon dioxide ice erupting in geysers when Martian winter turns to spring.

And speaking of hidden water, weird bean-shaped blobs on Mars might offer new clues in ... rate and detected problems before they occur. A species of giant dinosaur has been identified from ...