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

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

Schulze-Makuch identifies a superhabitable planet as “any planet that has more biomass and biodiversity than our current Earth.” Essentially, it would be slightly older, bigger, warmer and ...

Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch believes this was a mistake. He suggests Martian life may have adapted to the planet's dry environment. Schulze-Makuch proposes focusing on salts, ...

We may have already encountered Martian life about 30 years ago and accidentally killed it, according to a new analysis of NASA's Viking mission to Mars presented Sunday at a major astronomy ...

Dirk Schulze-Makuch is a Professor at the Technical University Berlin, Germany, and an Adjunct Professor at Arizona State University and Washington State University. He has published eight books ...

Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch argues that the murkiness of those first results may require a second look, now that we know so much more about Mars. Back in the 1970s, ...

Dirk Schulze-Makuch is a scientist who thinks NASA's Viking landers could have inadvertently destroyed the life they were searching for. In this Q&A, we ask why.

After landing on the Red Planet in 1976, NASA's Viking landers may have sampled tiny, dry-resistant life-forms hiding inside Martian rocks, Dirk Schulze-Makuch, an astrobiologist at Technical ...

A 2023 op-ed for Big Think, written by Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Ph.D., proposes that the NASA Viking landers of the 1970s potentially discovered signs of life on Mars—only for scientists to ...

And, according to a 2018 study by Dirk Schulze-Makuch and Ian Crawford, it’s possible that the very, very early Moon then had a surface ocean of water that was more than three thousand feet deep.

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