The planet Mars is home to thick layers of clay that can span hundreds of feet. Since they need water to form, these outcrops have long been of interest to scientists looking for signs of past life on ...

For more than a decade, a robotic explorer has been traveling across Mars, quietly collecting clues about a time when the Red Planet may have supported life. Now, new research based on an old rock ...

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Image from the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter showing rockfalls and their trails in the Oxia Planum region. The Rosalind Franklin mission’s chance of finding evidence of past life ...

While the presence of these molecules is not proof of ancient life on Mars, scientists say it shows we could detect chemical signatures of past life, if it ever existed. When you purchase through ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has spent a year on Mars patiently looking for evidence that Earth’s nearest planetary neighbor may have been hospitable to life once upon a time. It has already found traces of ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A pair of new studies presented at the Joint Meeting of the Europlanet Science Congress and the ...

The Rosalind Franklin mission's chance of finding evidence of past life on Mars has been boosted by two studies that show that the rover won't have to travel far to find materials potentially laden ...