Cosmic rays from deep space might be the secret energy source that allows life to exist underground on Mars and icy moons like Enceladus and Europa. New research reveals that when these rays interact ...

A new study from NYU Abu Dhabi has found that high-energy particles from space, known as cosmic rays, could create the energy ...

Marcus Chown said it is possible that humans are in fact aliens from Mars because the Red Planet was habitable before Earth ...

Astrobiologist Barry DiGregorio fears astronauts on Mars could die "live on air" after being exposed to deadly alien ...

Martian glaciers are mostly pure ice across the Red Planet, suggesting they might potentially be useful resources for any ...

Learn how cosmic rays, normally seen as a threat to humans in space, may be sustaining life beneath the surface of Mars and ...

New simulations suggest that up to four of the solar system's rocky planets, including Earth and a long-lost world, once ...

Donald Trump plans to scrap Nasa's Mars Sample Return mission – stranding test tubes on the Red Planet and ceding potentially ...

We might be looking for life on Mars in the wrong place, scientists suggest. Extraterrestrial life is more likely to be lurking in Mars' ice than on its rocky surface, according to a new paper in ...

“Mars could have had far more rivers than previously believed, which certainly paints a more optimistic view of ancient life on Mars,” Penn State geosciences professor Benjamin Cardenas, the ...

NASA’s next mission to Mars will be its most advanced yet. But if scientists discover there was once life – or there is life – on the Red Planet, will the public be able to handle such an ...

No evidence of life has been found on Mars yet. Well, that’s the view of Joseph Michalski, an associate professor of earth sciences at the University of Hong Kong, who spoke to Live Science.