Tag: life on mars

A new study calculates where photosynthetic microbes might survive under Martian ice.

Our latest ally in the search for life in the solar system? Algorithms.

This is important both for our search for life, and for potential contamination of the Red Planet.

Human visitors to Mars could bring along numerous microscopic colonizers. That's both good and bad.

There's more to the Red Planet than you think.

The melting of ice beneath the surface of Mars could have made its deep regions the most habitable.

Bacteria in rock deep under sea inspire new search for life on Mars.

Very, very probably wrong.

The clock is ticking.

Life, as they say, finds a way.

We don't want to say there's life on Mars... but there could be life on Mars.

We don't know whether Mars held life... but there's certainly a lot of potential.

Researchers have long known that Mars has water in the form of ice, but now, after years and years of ...

Mars - our neighbor, the Red Planet... is not actually red. The first look at what’s under Mars’s dusty red ...

Curiosity is preparing for its second drill on Mars - its eyeing a rock which may have a salty story ...

NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover has discovered a tenfold spike in methane, an organic chemical which may indicate that there actually was ...

Dating rocks is not really something new - it's been conducted on Earth for decades now; researchers have also determined ...

Researchers have reported dark streaks near the equator of Mars, hinting at surprisingly large quantities of flowing water. If true, ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has come up with yet another remarkable discovery - evidence of an ancient, freshwater lake, with water ...

After finding no methane in the Martian atmosphere, Curiosity has shown that the soil and dust on the surface of ...

A lab exemplification of the measurement chamber inside the Tunable Laser Spectrometer, an instrument that is part of the Sample ...

Ever since 2010, I've been telling you about a group of scientists and investors which wants to send people to ...

The otherwordly new video features one of the two Martian moons - Phobos, as it rises on the sky. Even ...

Detailed analysis and review have confirmed the scientists' initial opinion - the pebble containing slabs Curiosity stumbled upon last year ...

As the search for life on Mars intensifies, it's good to remember that there are other places in our own ...

Despite some initial worry, Curiosity's drill worked out just fine, and now, the rover has revealed historic images that confirm ...

Ridges of Martian impact craters could be fossils of cracks in the Martian surface, formed by minerals deposited by flowing ...

Exobiologists have found what they believe to be the clearest evidence that Mars supported life - though it may not ...

(c) Image by ESA/DLR/FU Berlin Using combined imagery delivered by the  High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) and recent color channel data, the ...

The first sample from underground Mars will come from a rockbed that showcases unexpected mineral veins of gypsum. A Martian ...

A few days ago, the Curiosity rover staff made an announcement that sent echoes throughout the entire scientific community - ...

Curiosity took a break from its usual rock sampling activities and instead focused on the air, trying to figure out ...

It's dinner time, and you know what there's on the menu? Rocks! Martian rocks, to be more precise. After what ...

A new study conducted by NASA indicates that large molecules containing carbon came to Earth from Mars - molecules which ...

Several studies performed in the last decade have shown Mars used to be warmer and wetter, but scientists still haven't ...

When the administration gives you budget cut lemons, make a different scientific lemonade - that's pretty much what NASA is ...

There is still a good chance we might find life on Mars, but if we really want to do this, ...

Time is growing shorter and shorter for the people working on the development of the Mars exploration program, and as ...

They came from Mars; they invaded our planet billions of years ago. But they were small, and came with rocks ...

After months of anticipation, three death defying astronauts set foot on Mars; well, actually, in a dark sand-filled room designed ...

NASA has excited pretty much everybody's mind when they announced a press conference for today on the topic of extraterrestrial ...