The camera moves slowly over a surface that seems deserted and silent. There is no visible life, only dusty terrain ...

What would life on Mars really be like? Elon Musk’s bold vision of colonizing the red planet sparks curiosity, but the challenges are immense—from freezing temperatures to cutting-edge technology ...

In 2023, NASA embarked on an intriguing mission to simulate life on Mars, where four volunteers spent over a year confined to a Martian habitat replica. While the scientific focus was on survival and ...

We might be looking for life on Mars in the wrong place, scientists suggest. Extraterrestrial life is more likely to be lurking in Mars' ice than on its rocky surface, according to a new paper in ...

So, apart from Mars, the search for other forms of life is focused on satellites, especially those orbiting Jupiter and Saturn.

Mars' global magnetic field may have hung around for 200 million years longer than scientists had thought, possibly giving life a longer window to take hold on the Red Planet.

The hopes of finding life on Mars took a new turn in 1996. In August, a team of scientists from NASA and Stanford University announced that a Mars meteorite found in the Allan Hills of Antarctica ...

President Trump’s proposed NASA budget redirects focus from moon missions to Mars exploration. Central Florida scientists, including UCF’s Dr. Ramses Ramirez, is developing technology to help ...

It’s easy to get excited about the prospect of finding life on Mars—so easy that scientists have been getting worked up again and again and again and again over the past century and more. But ...

However, inside Mars, which is roughly half the diameter of Earth, the geodynamo cooled quickly as heat leaked away and convection ceased. As it did so, the geodynamo within the Red Planet stuttered ...