Life On Mars

• Calgary scientists studying Mars soil for signs it supported life

  The Canadian Space Agency, as part of the NASA-led Mars Science Laboratory mission, is funding the three-year study to determine whether Mars was ever capable of supporting life..

  Science

  Sep 1, 2022
  
• NASA’s top scientist retires, has a plan to make Mars habitable

  He says that the first step to human life on Mars would be bringing the climate to a point where 'blood doesn't boil if you walk out on the surface.'

  Science

  Jan 4, 2022
  
• Advertisement
• Take a look around Mars with Perseverance rover’s HD photo panorama

  NASA has released a high-definition, interactive look at the Martian landscape around its Perseverance rover.

  Trending

  Feb 25, 2021
• Advertisement
• Spacecraft gets ready for Mars launch: NASA, China and UAE hope to find signs of life

  The U.S., for its part, is dispatching a six-wheeled rover the size of a car, named Perseverance, to collect rock samples that will be brought back to Earth for analysis in about a decade.

  Science

  Jul 13, 2020
• Mission to Mars detects ‘green glow’ of oxygen around the Red Planet

  It's the first time astronomers have seen the green glow around a planet other than Earth.

  Trending

  Jun 18, 2020
• Life on Mars was possible 4 billion years ago, say Western University researchers

  A new international study led by Western University suggests that life in our solar system, particularly on Mars, was possible much earlier than previously accepted. 

  Science

  Jun 24, 2019
• Mars has liquid water under its surface, researchers say

  Radar scans have detected the first clear evidence of liquid water on Mars, in the form of a large lake under the planet's southern ice cap.

  Science

  Jul 25, 2018
• NASA’s rover finds more evidence that life on Mars may be possible

  Scientists reported Thursday that NASA’s Curiosity rover has found potential building blocks of life in an ancient Martian lakebed

  Science

  Jun 7, 2018
• Advertisement
• Mars’ toxic surface could force scientists to search for life underground

  In their research paper, Wadsworth and Cockell refer to the surface of Mars as hostile or "inimical to life." 

  News

  Jul 9, 2017
• Advertisement
• ExoMars lander ready to touch down on red planet

  The search for life on Mars may take a giant leap on Wednesday when a space lander is due to touch down on the red planet in Europe's first attempt to land a craft there since the Beagle 2's "heroic failure" more than a decade ago.

  Science

  Oct 19, 2016