Report Suggests Mars Microbes Overlooked

WASHINGTON -- Two NASA space probes that visited Mars 30 years ago may have stumbled upon alien microbes on the Red Planet and inadvertently killed them, a scientist theorizes in a paper released Sunday.
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SETH BORENSTEIN

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Report Suggests Mars Microbes Overlooked

SETH BORENSTEIN