The idea of life on Mars has fascinated scientists for decades. In the 1970s, NASA's Viking missions made history as the first to land on the Martian surface with the goal of finding signs of life.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Dirk Schulze-Makuch thinks getting astronauts to Mars is no big deal if people would stop spending so much time and money trying to bring them home, and just leave them there instead. The Washington ...

We may already have ‘met’ Martian organisms, according to a paper presented Sunday (Jan. 7) at the meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle. Dirk Schulze-Makuch of Washington State ...

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 ...