Fifty years ago, NASA’s Viking missions to Mars made groundbreaking attempts to detect life on the Red Planet. While the missions initially returned negative results, a new study published in the ...

The redemption of Viking: Did the 50-year-old mission to Mars find life or not? How NASA’s 1975 mission to Mars led to decades of scientific controversy and confusion over the existence of life on ...

Seek signs of life on the red planet and collect rock and soil samples to bring back for a potential return to Earth. Today you can track the Perseverance Rover online while it trundles around Mars, ...

The key to solving the mystery of the Viking results is the discovery of perchlorate on the Martian surface in 2008. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Could NASA’s Viking missions have wiped out life on Mars before we even knew it existed? According to an expert at Daily Galaxy, startling theory suggests that our search for Martian life may have ...

We may already have ‘met’ Martian organisms, according to a paper presented Sunday (Jan. 7) at the meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle. Dirk Schulze-Makuch of Washington State ...

Forty years ago, NASA’s Viking mission made history when it became the first mission to successfully land a fully operational spacecraft on Mars. This mission gave us our first real look at the ...