Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth?

NASA has sent a host of remotely-operated landers, orbiters and rovers to study Mars and bring back geologic samples. While no humans have set foot on the planet, that could change. NASA has ...

Mariner 4, built by JPL in Pasadena, took the images on July 14, 1965. One of the mission's leaders reflects on decades of ...

Now that the NASA rover Perseverance has successfully touched down on the red planet, the rover is due to set about its primary mission of trying to search for signs of life on Mars. Indeed, from ...

And life got its foothold on Mars and took its journey to Earth and we're all Martians." Rob Manning: The water that was on the surface of Mars, you could scoop it up and drink it.

NASA has a number of missions in operation at the surface of Mars that are intensely engaged in the search for traces of life. Primary among these missions are the rovers Curiosity, which landed ...

What life on Mars would probably look like – and it’s not little green men Scientists have not given up hope of finding life, María Rosa Pino Otín writes Wednesday 19 February 2025 10:16 GMT ...

About 3.5 billion years ago, two of the planets that orbited the sun may have had biospheres of similar bulk. One, Earth, evolved in a way that allowed life to flourish and splinter into endless ...

Finding life on a planet other than Earth would be momentous, ... NASA chief scientist Jim Green said it’s possible we’ll soon find evidence of life on Mars but that “we’re not ...

NASA has been robotically exploring Mars since the mid-’60s, and because of these missions we’re now fairly certain that the planet isn’t home to any extraterrestrial engineers. (Sorry ...

Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth? A new study ...