In an investigation to find out what sparked life on Earth, researchers have discovered that RNA formed through surprisingly ...

In a quiet corner of an ancient riverbed on Mars, a speckled rock has pushed the search for extraterrestrial life into its ...

NASA’s Mars rover finds organic signals in mudstone that resemble microbial activity, sparking new debate over life on the ...

Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to ...

For decades, scientists have imagined Martian life as something that might look faintly familiar, perhaps microbes not so ...

HE WAS the child genius who claimed to be the reincarnation of a Martian, shocking the world with tales of spaceships, ...

Mars once had sprawling river systems that rivaled major watersheds on Earth, and scientists have now identified the biggest ...

The purpose of the workshop, titled “Green Mars”, was to develop an “up-to-date perspective on the feasibility of terraforming Mars”.

How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don't yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that ...

As global warming continues and space technology improves, there is more and more talk about the growing possibility of a sci-fi future in which... This is what living on Mars could do to the human ...

NASA announced it found promising potential biosignatures on Mars. Potential biosignatures are things like chemicals and structures that could be a result of life on the planet, but more research was ...

Lucy Berthoud receives funding from UK Space Agency and UKRI. I have been researching the possibility of living on Mars for several years. But it took an invitation to give a talk about space at HMP ...