Scientists have spotted extremophiles in some of Earth's least nurturing environments: nestled in the salt flats of ... Atacama Desert, maybe it can also exist under the surface of Mars.

In Argentina’s Neuquén province, local laws require that when oil companies decommission a drilling site in the Monte Desert, they dig furrows across the site to promote plant growth ...

Nonprofit organization Mars Society uses the southern Utah desert to simulate what life will be like on Mars. For more than a decade, engineers and scientists have been going there hoping their ...

The efforts made by humans to learn as much as possible about Mars are numerous ... of pure sulfur rocks is like finding an oasis in the desert. It shouldn't be there, so now we have to explain ...