The key to solving the mystery of the Viking results is the discovery of perchlorate on the Martian surface in 2008.

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Fifty years ago, NASA’s Viking missions to Mars made groundbreaking attempts to detect life on the Red Planet. While the missions initially returned negative results, a new study published in the ...

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We've discovered a lot of strange things on Mars, but thus far, conclusive proof of life on the red planet has eluded us. Now, however, NASA has come as close as it ever has to confirming that Mars ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential ...

The search for life on Mars dates back about five decades, and a Sept. 10 announcement marks perhaps the most dramatic advancement yet. The news: NASA's Perseverance rover had found potential signs of ...

They’re not completely sure. They never are. But this time, they’re pretty sure. Or, at the very least, sure enough to alert the media. Scientists monitoring the Perseverance Mars rover mission have ...

MARS, Pa. (AP) — For two years, the NASA robot rover Curiosity will roam the fourth planet from the sun, seeking closure to a mystery that has long captivated the human race — the question of whether ...

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