"Starman," which premiered at South by Southwest, covers the life—and questions—of one of NASA's brightest stars.

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 ...

The most significant change since those 1970's experiments were conducted was the discovery of high levels of perchlorate on Mars. Perchlorate, plus abiotic oxidants, explains the Viking results ...

Scientists have identified another possible commonality between Earth and Mars: a solid inner core. Scientists have ...

Experts weigh in on whether President Donald Trump’s lofty goal of sending humans to Mars and back is feasible during his second term.

This mosaic is made up of more than 100 images captured by NASA’s Viking 1 orbiter, which operated around Mars from 1976 to 1980. The scar across the center of the planet is the vast Valles ...

Mayor Errick Simmons writes Greenville is seeing an unprecedented wave of investment that touches every corner of our ...

"so it was just like it's like on Mars — temperature, pressure, humidity — all of that in a chamber." Tillman, whose father played a key role in the Viking Mars Missions in the 1970s, grew up around ...

In Dan Farah’s The Age of Disclosure, one of the buzziest documentaries to premiere at SXSW this year, it takes interviews ...