For the first time ever, organic compounds containing nitrogen have been found inside a meteorite from Mars.
The Mars sample-return mission will be one of the most challenging interplanetary endeavours ever undertaken.
NASA's Curiosity rover has captured a panorama made up of over 1,000 images of the Martian surface.
NASA has finally decided upon a name for its upcoming Mars rover and no, it's not called Rover McRoverface.
Scientists believe that organic compounds known as thiophenes could be an indicator of life on Mars.
NASA has released a fascinating photograph showing a large cave entrance on the slopes of a Martian volcano.
Japan's space agency has greenlighted an ambitious mission to retrieve a piece of Mars' moon Phobos.
A leading British space scientist maintains that Jupiter's icy moon is very likely to be home to alien organisms.
NASA has confirmed that it has almost completed work on its upcoming robotic Mars exploration rover.
Scientists have discovered what looks like bacteria in water retrieved from isolated 'pockets' in South Africa.
A press release concerning an Ohio University scientist's discovery of insects on Mars has been taken down.
NASA and ESA are planning an ambitious mission to return samples of Mars to the Earth for the first time.
A professor emeritus at Ohio University claims that photos taken on Mars show actual live alien 'insects'.
The long-running mystery of methane on Mars has now been joined by another perplexing enigma - oxygen.
Gilbert Levin, who worked on the two Viking landers, maintains that evidence of alien life was found in 1976.
NASA scientists have released new audio clips of the otherworldly sounds picked up on the Martian surface.
A new paper has suggested that we may have no choice but to spread microorganisms to the Red Planet.
NASA's chief scientist Dr Jim Green is optimistic that the next rovers to visit Mars will find evidence of alien life.
NASA and ESA are hoping to secure formal approval to return samples of Mars soil to the Earth for study.
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has photographed a massive ice avalanche on the surface of Mars.