The European Space Agency's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has unveiled a striking image of a 'smiley face'-shaped salt deposit on ...

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Chinese astronauts aboard the Tiangong space station are studying microbes, to help determine if some of Earth's early ...

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Scientists believe that this salt deposit may hold clues to the possibility of ancient life on Mars. Billions of years ago, ...

Scientists suggest the salt deposits could house ancient bacteria from an era when Mars may have had an environment conducive ...

This discovery indicates that formaldehyde contributed to the formation of organic matter on ancient Mars, implying that bio-important molecules such as sugars and ribose (a component of RNA, which is ...

Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course ...

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The European Space Agency's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, a Martian satellite on a quest to uncover signs of life on the Red ...

But if hyper-resilient bacteria and archaea can exist in extreme below-ground conditions on Earth, similar organisms might be able to do the same on Mars. That's convenient, because scientists ...

If humans released enough engineered nanoparticles into the atmosphere of Mars, the planet could become more than 30 K warmer ...