A discovery made by a NASA rover has offered a clue for this mystery, new research said Wednesday, suggesting that while ...

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

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

In this week’s episode of Space Minds David Ariosto sits down Nathalie Cabrol, Director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Over the last few years, the term "Goldilocks zone" has come to be widely used to describe the range of distances from a star ...