The curious minds at What If imagine finally discovering alien life on Mars, exploring the scientific, cultural, and planetary ramifications.

Mars is a very dry planet with very little water in its atmosphere and hardly any clouds, so you might not expect it to have ...

Larry Fink, president and CEO of investment firm BlackRock, interviewed Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX at the World ...

For many years, astronomers have been looking for extraterrestrial life. In doing so, astronomers have narrowed their search ...

When it comes to the search for extraterrestrial life, research focuses on the so-called habitable zone of stars. This may ...

Musk compared consciousness to a candle in a “vast darkness" during remarks about aliens at the World Economic Forum in Davos ...

Spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet have helped researchers map out an ancient coastline that surrounded a large ocean billions of years ago ...

A scientist argued that a Viking lander experiment in 1976 detected microbial life on Mars and urged NASA to repeat the tests ...

So, Mars does have storms, but they’re far drier and dustier than the thunderstorms on Earth. Scientists are continually ...

NASA's plans for Mars sample return are effectively cancelled as part of a bill approved by the U.S. Congress, ending efforts ...

"Without Mars, Earth's orbit would be missing major climate cycles. What would humans and other animals even look like if ...