Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

It was a science fiction fantasy come true: Ten years ago this summer, NASA announced the discovery of life on Mars. At a Washington, D.C., news conference, scientists showed magnified pictures of a ...

Features in a Martian meteorite believed by some to be the fossilised remains of alien bacteria may have formed underwater, scientists claim. The nano-bodies from Van (left) look very like those from ...

It was a science fiction fantasy come true: Ten years ago this summer, NASA announced the discovery of life on Mars. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and ...

Do you remember the fuss surrounding ALH84001? That was the name of a meteorite, found in Antarctica, that was formed on Mars 4.5 billion years ago. It made the headlines a decade ago, when it was ...

Discovered in 1984, the Mars rock known as ALH84001 was eventually found to contain carbonates — a possible sign of life once existing on another world. The press went wild and ALH84001 became a ...

"The Rock from Mars" is engaging, smoothly written, and gives a sympathetic human face to the scientists involved, especially those in McKay's group. A quarter of the book is taken up by notes, which ...

The grapefruit-size chunk of basalt crashed into Antarctica about 11,000 years ago, 17 million years after its liberation from the surface of Mars. Geologists recovered the meteorite, known as ...

The scientific debate over whether a meteorite contains evidence of past life on Mars continues to intensify, with colleagues of the team that announced the possibility in 1996 revealing new findings ...