New Research Explores Volcanic Caves, Advancing the Search for Life on Mars Nov. 18, 2024 — Through the intricate study of lava tubes -- caves formed following volcanic eruptions when lava cools ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Dirk Schulze-Makuch, an astrobiologist at the Technische Universität Berlin, claims that NASA was wrong to assume that life on Mars would have ...

On Mars, mysteries remain to be unraveled. The search for potential extraterrestrial life may be at a turning point. Scientists are considering the possibility of photosynthetic organisms hidden ...

Life on Mars: An astrobiologist suggests that NASA's Viking missions in the 1970s may have inadvertently eliminated potential Martian life. The experiments, designed to detect life by introducing ...

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 ...

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 ...

The search for life on Mars has fascinated scientists for decades, but was a serious set-back decades ago? This is a theory a scientist has put forward, alleging that NASA may have unintentionally ...

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 ...

NASA’s long-standing strategy has been to “follow the water” when hunting for life on Mars. However, calls for a broader approach, suggesting that scientists should also investigate hydrated and ...

Why Trust Us? When the Viking 1 lander send down twin landers to study Mars in 1976, the results returned a negative result for the possibility of microbial life. However, for years, scientists ...

Schulze-Makuch suggests focusing on hygroscopic salts like Mars's sodium chloride, which absorbs moisture and could support microbial life, similar to some bacteria that thrive in brine solutions on ...