Researchers have successfully grown green algae in a specialized bioplastic “shelter” designed to mimic Mars. The Harvard ...

Mars is thought to currently have all the necessary ingredients for life except for perhaps the most important one — liquid ...

A lab experiment that simulated Mars conditions showed that green algae can grow in plastic containers made from the same ...

The Mars rover captured images of low ridges called boxwork patterns, which appear like spiderwebs from space.

Algae grown under Mars-like conditions could make bioplastic building materials for structures to harbor life in space.

New research shows how Mars may have undone its own habitability, while Earth stayed stable enough to support life.

One of the great unsolved problems in modern planetary science is written on the surface of Mars. Mars has canyons that were ...

The second half of the 19th century was a particularly interesting time to imagine Mars. This was a period during which the ...

The Mars rover found geological formations in Gale Crater showing how water percolated beneath the surface, and ...

Thick clay deposits on Mars hint at long-lived lakes that may have sheltered early life - and preserved clues beneath layers ...

One summer night in 1877, American astronomer Asaph Hall was looking through his telescope in Washington, D.C. Mars was at ...

In this week’s episode of Space Minds David Ariosto sits down Nathalie Cabrol, Director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute who explains why the Red Planet may hold answers about ...