A Ph.D. student and his supervisor have developed a simple way to test for active life on Mars and other planets using ...

John Cliff from Oak Ridge National Laboratorywill be te speaker. The program is free and open to the public. A live Zoom ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover stationed on Mars spotted a dome-shaped rock with a striking resemblance to a helmet used during ...

Searching for life on Mars has been an explicit goal of the astrobiological community for decades. However, they have not ...

Currently, only robotic landers, rovers and a helicopter have visited the red planet, but the images regularly beamed back to Earth by the rovers are providing humanity with as much information as ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has added to its trove of curious finds, as the space agency published a photo of a rock on the surface of Mars that looks like a centuries-old helmet. The rock has a pointed ...

In the Cheyava Falls Mars rock, they may be signs of chemical reactions that occurred billions of years ago, which could have served as an energy source for ancient microbial life, the ...

This is because these objects formed “billions of years ago when liquid water still existed on the Red Planet. Water carried ...

The thick, mineral-rich layers of clay found on Mars suggest that the Red Planet harbored potentially life-hosting environments for long stretches in the ancient past, a new study suggests.

Methane detected on Mars could come from living microbes, but it might also be contamination from past missions or extinct ...

Scientists have found tiny crystal worlds teeming with life at the Great Salt Lake — a discovery that could reveal how ...

The environment of Mars' early days, some 3.7 to 4.1 billion years ago, was likely favorable to allowing life to thrive — specifically, simple microbial organisms that ate up hydrogen and carbon ...