A new paper suggests that BARSOOM may have been alive on the planet, and was killed in the Viking experiments.

Fifty years ago, NASA’s Viking missions to Mars made groundbreaking attempts to detect life on the Red Planet. While the ...

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These four astronauts are set to get onboard NASA's Artemis 2 mission, which will send astronauts back to the moon for the ...

A scientist argued that a Viking lander experiment in 1976 detected microbial life on Mars and urged NASA to repeat the tests before future missions. We asked retired astronauts about their favorite ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's Viking landers were the first spacecraft to successfully touch down on the surface of Mars. NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP Finding ...

The first Space Shuttle was originally going to be named Constitution. US President Gerald Ford agreed to rename it Enterprise – here's how Star Trek fans persuaded him. It's 17 September 1976. The ...

Back in 1976, the dual NASA Viking landers came to full stop on the Red Planet. Their life detection experimental findings still reverberate within the scientific community – fueling the on-going ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

As a huge Superman fan, I have long wanted to own Action Comics No. 419, the issue published in 1972 with an iconic cover showing the Man of Steel hurtling into the sky, seeming to fly right off the ...

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A reverse image search using Google Lens (archived here) led Snopes to a Feb. 25, 2022, article in the British tabloid The Sun (archived here), which described the "odd object" as having been captured ...