Over 40 years ago, a NASA mission may have accidentally destroyed what would have been the first discovery of organic molecules on Mars, according to a report from New Scientist. Scientists didn't ...

NASA allegedly found strong evidence of life on Mars way back in July 1976. But the space agency dismissed its own data. Forty-three years later, it still hasn’t repeated the test. And now one of the ...

As the search for life on Mars continues – with promising potential biosignatures identified last year by NASA at the Bright Angel formation – there are a few scientists out there who think we may ...

PASADENA, Calif — In the early summer of 1976, the engineers and scientists of NASA's Viking mission hoped to do something no one had ever done before: land a fully operational spacecraft on Mars.

Humans first opened their eyes on the surface of Mars 45 years ago, on July 20, 1976 — or at least, a surrogate pair of eyes anyway. “We were watching the NBC evening news with John Chancellor, and I ...

In Pasadena, California, in the early summer of 1976, the engineers and scientists of NASA's Viking mission hoped to do something no one had ever done before: land a fully operational spacecraft on ...

On Sept. 17, 1976, NASA publicly unveiled its first space shuttle, the Enterprise, in Palmdale, Calif. Development of the aircraft-like spacecraft cost almost US$10 billion and took nearly a decade to ...

The day Gil Levin says he detected life on Mars, he was waiting in his lab at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, watching a piece of paper inch out of a printer. Levin snatched the sheet and ...