No place on Earth has the exact conditions we see on Mars. Scientists believe the Red Planet once had rivers with flowing water. Today, though, the planet’s surface is an arid wasteland with an ...

In all our explorations of Mars to date, no evidence has been found that meets the rigorous standards to claim that we have conclusively found life. But, decades ago in the 1970s, when the Viking ...

Life on Mars may have been found — before it was accidentally destroyed during a NASA mission nearly 50 years ago, one scientist has suggested. In 1975, just six years after Apollo 11 touched down on ...

Dirk Schulze-Makuch, an astrobiologist at Technical University Berlin, has put forward a striking theory suggesting that NASA ...

The idea of Mars being host to extraterrestrial life, either currently or long ago in the past, has beguiled scientists for centuries. The discovery of frozen water on the Red Planet gave scientists ...

TL;DR: NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft, which landed on Mars in 1975, aimed to test for life using water-based methods. Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch suggests these methods might have inadvertently ...

When Vikings landed on Lindisfarne's shores in 793, slaughtering the local English populace and pillaging the monastery of valuable relics beyond their cultural comprehension, they ushered in a new ...

Could NASA’s Viking missions have wiped out life on Mars before we even knew it existed? According to an expert at Daily Galaxy, startling theory suggests that our search for Martian life may have ...

Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch just published an intriguing new paper where he explores the possibilities and limits of alien life forms. In particular, he considers two potential new genera ...

Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch, from the Technische Universität Berlin in Germany, believes that humans may have unintentionally killed life on Mars in the 1970s. NASA’s Viking 1 mission in 1976 ...