Scientists have pondered why Mars seemed to be missing sufficient carbonates indicative of its warm, wet past. Now, NASA’s ...

This Martian methane mystery poses an interesting challenge for scientists. On one hand, there are known chemical reactions that can take the molecules known to exist on Mars and turn them into ...

Two NASA rovers on Mars recently made two independent discoveries further indicating that ancient life may have once existed on the Red Planet.

In the early 1900s, Martians were a hot topic in American popular culture. Are those canals on the red planet? How can we contact Martians? Up and coming actor/director/producer Orson Welles took ...

He fantasized about Martians, their bodies a kaleidoscope of color—Burroughs’s Mars had two more primary colors than Earth—with removable heads but decidedly human forms. “I didn’t ...

Ever since 1784, when astronomer William Herschel proposed that Mars’s inhabitants “probably enjoy a situation in many respects similar to ours”, we have been dreaming about Martian life.