Carbonate minerals form when carbon dioxide reacts with water and rock, hinting at life-friendly environments. Curiosity’s find offers the clearest proof yet that Mars was once warm and wet.

And scientists now think that lichens could survive the ionising radiation that life experiences on Mars. This kind of radiation is extremely damaging, and is a serious threat to human plans for ...

It’s one of the most profound questions in science – did life ever exist on Mars? Now, experts have unearthed evidence that the Red Planet was once habitable. Scientists have found carbon ...

Because of this, scientists speculate that life may have emerged on Mars billions of years ago and could still be there today. Ever since the Viking 1 and 2 missions landed on the surface in 1976 ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has revealed new clues about Mars' volcanic past. While most people searching for signs of alien life these days might have their eyes on the exoplanet K2-18b ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. New samples collected and analyzed by NASA’s Curiosity rover are pushing researchers closer than ever to finding out if Mars ...

Perseverance, NASA’s most advanced robotic explorer, landed in the Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021, as part of the Mars 2020 mission’s search for signs of ancient microbial life on the Red Planet.

"This discovery highlights the diversity of environments that existed in the Shenandoah formation's history -- indicating multiple potential windows when life might have been possible on Mars," Dr ...

A new scientific discovery has revealed more information about volcanoes on Mars, and the revelation could hold the secrets to ancient life on the planet being unveiled. With Elon Musk among the most ...

Scientists are keen to get the samples Perseverance has collected back to Earth to determine if life ever existed on Mars. However, NASA's Mars Sample Return mission is facing significant ...

life-friendly world to a dry and arid desert. The Curiosity rover recently uncovered large deposits of carbon within sulfate-rich layers of Mount Sharp in Mars’ impact basin, Gale Crater.