Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes ...

Data from China's Zhurong rover has revealed what appears to be an ancient shoreline streaking through Mars' northern ...

"We think the water came from the melting of nearby sub-surface ice called permafrost, and that the permafrost melting was ...

The Hera mission is headed for the Didymos binary asteroid system. NASA's Double Asteroid Redirect Mission (DART) smashed ...

Dirk Schulze-Makuch is a scientist who thinks NASA's Viking landers could have inadvertently destroyed the life they were ...

The Lafayette meteorite was discovered in a drawer at Purdue University in 1931, with no clear indication of how it got there ...

Despite the team's success in dating the water-rock interaction, the researchers don't think Mars was teeming with water at ...

Mars may have hosted life billions of years ago, a possibility that has long intrigued scientists. Now, new evidence suggests ...

Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch believes Nasa's Viking missions have inadvertently 'eliminated' Martian life. He also ...

A German astrobiologist suggests that humans might have inadvertently wiped out Martian life nearly 50 years ago, during NASA ...

The 1976 Viking landers were the first U.S. missions to land on Mars, conducting the only experiments dedicated to detecting ...

Firming up plans to go to Mars would be fine, so long as it is not done at the expense of returning to the moon.