Most planetary scientists agree that Mars’ extreme conditions would be uninhabitable to life as we know it. New research, however, suggests that we might be underestimating the hardiness of lichens.

Turning Martian dust into shelter has long sounded like science fiction, but researchers are now treating it as an ...

A collection-based survey of lichen species at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, USA and Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station in Nunavut, Canada was conducted as part of the Mars-160 mission ...

Mars looks familiar in telescope images, but its thin air, deep cold and radiation soaked surface would kill an unprotected ...

Researchers bombarded lichens with a year's worth of Martian radiation in just 5 hours — and they survived, hinting that the extremophiles could potentially live on the Red Planet. When you purchase ...

Yes, zombie creatures from another world could indeed land on a defenseless planet, but in a twist, it's the Earthlings who ...

Mars once had sprawling river systems that rivaled major watersheds on Earth, and scientists have now identified the biggest ...

Long before Mars became the cold, dry world we see today, rain once fell across its surface. Water gathered in low-lying valleys and river channels ...