The Viking missions paved the way for future Mars missions and helped researchers understand the red planet’s climate and ...

Back in 1976, the dual NASA Viking landers came to full stop on the Red Planet. Their life detection experimental findings still reverberate within the scientific community – fueling the on-going ...

Scientists combined 20 years of Mars images to track over 1,000 dust devils, revealing powerful winds that shape the Red ...

Dust devils form when the planet’s surface heats up, pushing hot air close to the ground rapidly up through cooler air above.

NASA's Viking missions in the 1970s were groundbreaking, marking the first time humanity sent spacecraft to Mars with the goal of searching for life. Viking 1, launched in 1975, landed on the Martian ...

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 ...

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 ...

Seek signs of life on the red planet and collect rock and soil samples to bring back for a potential return to Earth. Today you can track the Perseverance Rover online while it trundles around Mars, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Joel S. Levine, William & Mary (THE CONVERSATION) Finding life beyond the Earth would ...