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

Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch believes that humans may have unintentionally killed life on Mars in the 1970s.

An "otherwordly" crash site of another spacecraft was photographed by a NASA helicopter. Back in 2020, the Perseverance Rover ...

Massive sunspot AR3576 has been captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory and the Mars Perseverance rover. Credit: ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover spots a scattering of bizarre bright white pebbles of a mysterious composition and origin.

The two robots, working alone and far apart from one another, are struggling on their respective treks along the Red Planet's ...

On 1971, Mariner 9 became the first spacecraft to orbit Mars. At the time, scientists didn't know much about the Red Planet.

Happy New Year's on Mars. Martian years are almost twice as long as Earth years. Nov. 12 is the day to celebrate the start of ...

The Texas A&M University Space Institute will look to aid in space exploration missions, plus be a home for research and ...

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

NASA is laying off hundreds of employees at its Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, in response to a lower budget.

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California — which manages many of NASA's high-profile robotic missions, such ...