Professor Michael Pravica joins The Afternoon Shift to discuss whether Mars really should be the next frontier... Canadian PM Carney says negotiations with Trump on economic, security relationship ...

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC is planning to mark 50 years since the production of Life on Earth, the David Attenborough series that set the template for modern natural history content. The BBC’s Natural ...

“Follow the water” became the watchwords of every Mars mission thereafter. The hopes of finding life on Mars took a new turn in 1996. In August, a team of scientists from NASA and Stanford ...

Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch, from the Technische Universität Berlin in Germany, believes that humans may have unintentionally killed life on Mars in the 1970s. NASA's Viking 1 mission in ...

Mars' global magnetic field may have hung around for 200 million years longer than scientists had thought, possibly giving life a longer ... meteorite Allan Hills 84001 — the meteorite that ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. A new study has raised some speculation about whether or not parts of Mars can allow ...

If dust makes up more than about 1% of the ice, it would be too shaded for life to survive – but in ice containing between 0.01 and 0.1% dust, microbes could find refuge at depths between 5 and ...

NASA's Curiosity rover takes in a desolate view of Mars at Gale crater in 2021. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech Cold, dry, and barren: Mars doesn't look like it could be a haven for life — at least ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. NASA's Perseverance rover has discovered a rock on Mars that may have once hosted microbial life.

Yet according to a recent study in the journal Communications Earth and Environment, Mars does not quite meet the standards necessary to have supported life in its past — at least, not like ...

We show that the organic material found on Mars has been formed through atmospheric photochemical reactions -- without life that is ... called Allan Hills 84001 for the place in Antarctica ...