You might have heard about plans to establish a self‑sustaining city on Mars. Here’s what life would really be like on the ...

On the barren, cold expanses of Mars, a discovery has rocked the scientific world. The recent Mars rover unmanned mission has ...

NASA has identified mysterious "green spots" on the surface of Mars, with the exciting discovery raising the tantalising possibility of past microbial life on the planet. Although NASA has ...

A NASA-led study has revealed that alien life could be hiding beneath the icy layers of Mars. Scientists suggested that the Red Planet's ancient ice packs may have long acted as a shield for ...

The NASA research was led by Aditya Khuller, a postdoctoral researcher at JPL (Representational) Is there life on Mars? Scientists have been seeking an answer to this question for a long time.

We believe that dusty Martian ice exposures in the mid-latitudes represent the most easily accessible places to search for Martian life today ... flying over Mars, such as NASA's Mars ...

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 ...

Water is the essence of life ... “On Mars, the lack of an effective ozone shield allows roughly 30 percent more damaging ultraviolet radiation to reach the surface in comparison with Earth,” wrote ...

Images of the Red Planet taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter ... While they don't suggest that life currently exists on Mars or has ever existed in the history of the Red Planet ...