"Unlike Earth, Mars lacks a protective ozone shield, so there is 30 percent more harmful ultraviolet radiation at the surface," said researcher Aditya Khuller.

Nasa may have found evidence of past alien life on Mars. The space agency says that its rover, Perseverance, has found a rock that might once have been host to microbial life, billions of years ago.

A Chinese rover has found new evidence to support the theory that Mars was once home to a vast ocean, including tracing some ...

Scientists have claimed to have found definitive proof that there was once life on Mars. They have presented new evidence which they say removes any doubt that a meteorite carried the remnants of ...

Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun, has always been the center of attention for everyone and scientists have sent countless ...

NASA's Perseverance rover is approaching four years of activity on the Martian surface — and all this time, the rover has ...

Nasa has found shocking “green spots” on Mars. On Earth, those spots can be a mark of the activity of microbes. Nasa ...

While actual evidence for life on Mars has never been found, a new NASA study proposes microbes could find a potential home beneath frozen water on the planet's surface. Through computer modeling ...

meter-depths for cleaner ice.' The cleaner ice was found to be especially fertile territory for deeper pockets of microbial life along Mars' mid-latitude ranges, in both its northern and southern ...

An image from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter of a gully in the Martian region Dao Vallis. The white areas in the centre of the image are believed to be areas of dusty ice similar to that ...

We "haven't found any evidence for life on Mars", said professor of planetary science Michael Manga of the University of California, Berkeley, but "at least we have identified a place that should ...

Scientists believe the crater rim may be rife with rocks containing additional clues about past life on Mars – but they may not have expected to find something like this so soon. The black-and-white ...