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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Billions of years ago, Mars was home to vast lakes and rivers, which disappeared during a catastrophic global freeze.

Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

These are foods that are most likely to carry the pathogens and bacteria that cause foodborne illnesses and ... The child ...